Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England - Paperbackby Urvashi Chakravarty (Author) In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that we must hold early modern England and its narratives of exceptional and essential freedom to account for the