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点击上方 港大法律 关注我们 主题 She “Never borrowed a shilling”: Caribbean Slavery in the Colonial North 她“从未借过一便士”：北方殖民地的加勒比奴隶制 In 1732, Josiah Martin, a wealthy sugar planter from the island of Antigua, penned a furious letter to his former friend, Shippen Lawrence of New York, calling him a man of “vile and dishonest principles.” This paper begins with consideration of the event that sparked Martin’s outrage. It involved three women—Martin’s wife, Lawrence’s wife, and an enslaved woman named Abigail—and focused on who had the right to command Abigail’s labor. Mrs. Martin had agreed to hire Abigail out to Mrs. Lawrence as a servant. When the Martin family returned to Antigua after living in New York for a few years, they left Abigail behind. In an era when chattel slavery was legal throughout the British empire, there was nothing unusual about this arrangement. Yet, each colony passed its own laws relat
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