Settling Debt Patricia O'Connell Killen For many women

For many women

with special attention to the question of ownership: What is it like to think of yourself as the owner of what you know

despite being constantly in the presence of family

''Whatever the word ‘success' means to you

He was the great secular champion of the native peoples of the New World and the only Spaniard to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents

Settling Debt Patricia O'Connell Killen For many womenSettling Debt overturns the familiar tale of early antislavery as a pure moral triumph by revealing its uneasy ties to colonial ambition and economic anxiety. Cameron Seglias shows how, from the late seventeenth century through the American Revolution, settlers and religious writers condemned slavery as a threat to their own prosperity and salvation. Debt, understood both as money owed and moral obligation, anchored their vision of freedom and shaped