Brett rushforth biography

Brett Rushforth is a scholar of the early modern Atlantic world whose research focuses on comparative slavery, Native North America, and French colonialism and empire. He has published widely on early modern colonialism, slavery, material culture, legal history, and religion.

His first book, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents (co-edited with Paul W.

Mapp), uses primary documents to trace the history of North America in its Atlantic context from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries.

His second book, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France, examined the enslavement of American Indians by French colonists and their Native allies, tracing the dynamic interplay between Native systems of captivity and slavery and French plantation-based racial slavery.

In 2013, Bonds of Alliance was named the best book on American social history by the Organization of American Historians (Curti Award), the best book on Fren