Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660
by Cynthia J. Van Zandt
Published by Oxford University Press, 2008
Hardcover. FINE in FINE dust jacket.
Africans in North America formed intercultural alliances and were able to negotiate significant aspects of life, despite the bonds of slavery. Cynthia Van Zandt reveals a lost world, a world of interconnected histories of Virginia, New England, and New Netherland. This book examines the extraordinary array of alliances and interactions among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans during the first eighty years of permanent European colonization on the eastern seaboard. It argues that uneasy interdependence was a defining feature of life in 17th-century North America.
