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Alec Israeli interviews John Samuel Harpham about his book, The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery (Harvard UP, 2025), which finds that English observers’ justifications of New World slavery only began to shift away from classical arguments in the late 17th century. @harvardpress.bsky.social
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From Freedom to Slavery in the Early-Modern World: An Interview with John Samuel Harpham
Harpham's book traces how English defenses of New World slavery based on classical arguments persisted—then gave way to something new....
