John Wood Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and coeditor (with Robert Appelbaum) of Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: After Origins PT. I. COMING TOGETHER 1. Common Ground 2. Negotiating Slavery 3. Strange Christians PT. II. LIVING TOGETHER 4. Strange Flesh 5. Men of Arms 6. Negotiating Freedom PT. III. MOVING APART 7. Conceiving Race 8. Manifest Destinies 9. Hard Scrabble Epilogue: Democracy in America Notes A Note on Sources Index
"At once detailed and sweeping, social and political, archival and synthetic... This book is the best application yet to early American history of postcolonial theory."--American Historical Review "An ambitious and persuasive account of the ways the political inclusion of some groups and not others connected the colonial era through the Revolution to the early American republic."--Journal of American History "Sweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for thinking about the relationship between 'cultures' and identities... Bodies Politic is deeply researched and richly detailed."--William and Mary Quarterly "This superb study explores the origins of that ironic definition of democracy as 'universal freedom and racial inequality.' ... Sophisticated and engaging... Highly recommended."--Choice