Status, Class and Patriarchy

Interpreting the colonial societies and their legal orders.

Readings

Assigned

Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975), pp. 295-387

George Lee Haskins, Law and Authority in Early Massachusetts (1968), chapters 8 to 12

The Charter of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1628).

Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusets (1648)

Suggested

Notes and Materials

Projects