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Chapters

  • Prologue: Iberian Antecedents
  • Ch 1: Debating Power & Empire
  • Ch 2: Restoration Settlements
  • Ch 3: Reacting to Absolutism
  • Ch 4: Glorious Revolutions?
  • Ch 5: Whig Moments
  • Ch 6: Tory Reactions
  • Ch 7: Revolutionary Atlantics
  • Ch 8: Colonial Aftershocks

 

Prologue: Iberian Antecedents

  • Las Siete Partidas (1348)
  • Romanus Pontifex (1455)
  • Inter Caetera (1493)
  • Requerimiento (1513)
  • Royal Charter of 1518
  • Early Spanish Slave Trade (1519/20)
  • Petition to the Portuguese King (1526)
  • New Laws of 1542
  • Los Tres Mulatos (1599)

Ch 1: Debating Power & Empire

  • James I – The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598)
  • Elizabethean Statute of Artificers Marginalia (1603)
  • Original Constitution of Carolina (1629)
  • Charter of Maryland (1632)
  • An Act Abolishing the Kingly Office, March 17, 1649
  • The Trial of Charles I 
  • John Milton – Eikonoklastes (1649)
  • Richard Ligon – A True and Exact History of Barbados (1657)
  • Sir Robert Filmer – Patriarcha (1680)

      Ch 2: Restoration Settlements

      • Charles II Treason & Sedition Act (1661)
      • Roger L’Estrange – In Order to the Regulation of Press (1663)
      • Royal African Company Documents (1660 – 1667)
      • Jamaica Slave Code (1664)
      • Barbados Slave Code (1661 – 1667)
      • Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
      • Colonial State Papers (1670s)
      • Enquiries to the Governor of Virginia (1671)
      • Barbados Slave Rebellion (1675)

       

      Ch 3: Reacting to Absolutism

      • Butts v. Penny (1677)
      • A Letter From Sir Thomas Grantham To a Member of Bacon’s Rebellion
      • Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
      • John Locke – An Essay on Reputation
      • Morgan Godwyn – Trade Preferred Before Religion (1685)
      • Marvell Andrew – A Collection of Poems On Affairs
      • Roger L’Estrange – On Sedition Prosecutions (1663)

       

      Ch 4: Glorious Revolutions?

      • Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (c. 1680-1683)
      • English Bill of Rights (1689)
      • James Tyrrell – Bibliotheca Politica
      • John Locke – Two Treatises of Government (1689)
      • Lord Sunderland Correspondence on the Appointment of John Locke to Christ Church (1684)
      • The Bloody Assizes: Or, A Complete History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies
      • The Dominion of New England (1686)

       

          Ch 5: Whig Moments

          • Colonial State Papers
          • John Locke – A Letter on Toleration (1685)
          • Samuel Sewall – The Selling of Joseph (1700)
          • The Virginia Slave Code of 1705

          Ch 6: Tory Reactions

          • 1698 African Trade Act
          • Virginia Slave Code 1705
          • Robert Harley’s investigations into Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1705)
          • Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712
          • Assiento and the Treaty of Utrecht 1710-1713
          • Cato by Joseph Addison (1713)
          • Hogarth’s South Sea Bubble Print (1720)
          • Yorke Talbot Decision 1729

          Ch 7: Revolutionary Atlantics

          • Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
          • Thomas Jefferson Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
          • Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Act (1780)
          • St. George Tucker Gradual Emancipation Plan (1796)
          • Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)

            Ch 8: Colonial Aftershocks

            • Federal Sedition Legislation (1830s-1860s)
            • Kansas Prohibitions on Anti-Slavery Material and Ending Slavery (1850s)
            • Corwin Amendment (1860)
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