Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds

"Arresting and enlightening . . .[t]he book looks at the origins of slavery in the region, the kinds of labor enslaved people did, as well as their private lives and their modes of resisting slavery."—Boston Globe

"A lively and compelling account of the largely unknown history of slavery in New England and its lasting impacts on the region."—Emerson W. Baker, author of The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England

"In this well-researched, highly readable book, Hardesty makes the enormously difficult topic of slavery in New England understandable."—Harvey Amani Whitfield, author of North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

"Hardesty delivers a highly readable, comprehensive history of slavery in New England that will appeal to lay historians and early-career academic historians alike."—CHOICE

"[A] meticulously researched history that turns on its head the notion that New England was beyond reproach with respect to slavery."—Portland Press Herald

"Hardesty's work offers the chance for readers to peer into a region still grappling with acknowledging its history. Hardesty's work is as much a synthesis as it is a call for the correction of public memory, something future works would do well to heed."—Black Perspectives

"One of the most important interventions and strengths of Black Lives, Native Land, White Worlds is how the monograph centers not only the lives of enslaved people as opposed to centering their enslavers. Hardesty describes the lives of Black New Englanders in vivid detail with accessible prose."—Labour/Le Travail

"Black Lives is a welcome addition to the current resurgent interest in the subject of slavery in the North."—The New England Quarterly

"Jared Hardesty’s sweeping and well-researched history of the institution of slavery in New England is . . . wonderfully engaging . . . Hardesty’s thorough synopsis of the most recent scholarship on New England slavery is seamlessly paired with his own historical analysis of the varied and complex experiences of the enslaved and enslavers."—Journal of the Early Republic