Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750 Sarah Edmunds often inflicted on each other

often inflicted on each other

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and the social roots of these disparities

Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750 Sarah Edmunds often inflicted on each otherIn seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain, captivity emerged as a persistent metaphor as well as a material reality. The exercise of power on both an institutional and a personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women, perceived themselves to be captive subjects. This "domestic captivity" was inextricably connected to England's systematic enslavement of kidnapped Africans and the wealth accumulation realized