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The Atlantic Manor: A Comparative Perspective on the Manor in Colonial New York

This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.

“The Atlantic Manor” proposes a new history of colonial New York’s manors from a comparative perspective. The manor was a form of property that granted rights in land and limited legal jurisdiction to a lord. On manors, land ownership was not absolute; rather, rights in land were shared between landlords, tenant farmers, and Indigenous communities. By comparing the role and organization of the manor in England, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Chesapeake colonies, and New France, I argue that the manor was a significant colonial institution across the 17th-century Atlantic, and establish the relevance of New York’s manors—usually viewed as highly idiosyncratic and unique to the Hudson Valley—to historians working on other parts of the Atlantic world.

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