New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

A New York Times Editor’s Choice

"This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and E…