The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865 by Mark Peterson (review).

Missing in this provocative biography is a fuller examination of servitude and slavery and the role the two played in the history of Boston. Apprehensively, Boston changed, as cotton transformed the landscape of the young nation and Boston residents turned their attention to the industry of textile manufacturing. Press 4 Jared Hardesty; Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston; 2016; New York Univ. [Extracted from the article]