TY - BOOK ID - 139054399 TI - Slavery and the making of early American libraries : British literature, political thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 PY - 2019 SN - 0192573411 0191873624 0192573403 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Book industries and trade KW - History. KW - America. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139054399 AB - This volume explores how profits from slavery underpinned the dissemination of British literature in America during the eighteenth century and how the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. ER -