Reviewed by Cassandra Pybus | Book Review | The William and Mary Quarterly, 66.2

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Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. By Mariana L. R. Dantas. The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 296 pages. $79.95 (cloth).

Reviewed by Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney

Mariana L. R. Dantas's monograph, third in Palgrave Macmillan's series on the Americas in the early modern Atlantic world under the general editorship of Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene, seeks to tease out the historiographical assumption that urban societies were more permeable environments for enslaved people and more propitious for the opportunity of freedom and upward mobility. In her careful, comparative study of two cities, one in North America and one in South America, Dantas not only shows this to be the case but also is able to show how these urban environments developed a permeable and accommodating nature in the first place. Most significantly, Dantas investigates the way in which enslaved people contributed to shaping the urban environment in a way that would prove beneficial to them.

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