Fictions of consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England

Introduction: "Too pure an air for slaves to breath in" : slavery "before" slaves in early modern England

Marking service: livery, liberty, and legal fictions in early modern England

"Leaue to Liue More at Libertie" : race, slavery, and pedagogy in the early modern schoolroom

"Am I not consanguineous?" : the foreign Famulus and the early modern household

Faithful covenant servants and inbred enemies : indenture and natality in Paradise Lost

"Of a Bondslaue I made thee my free man" : servitude, manumission, and the Macula Servitutis in The Tempest and its early American afterlife

Epilogue: Fictions of consent in the Atlantic world.