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A 40-minute plenary address examining the archives of enslaved reproduction in the early modern Atlantic world, and the genealogies of bound labour and racial formation they delineate, in order to argue for what Urvashi Chakravarty calls "racial futurity" in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. the talk will draw on early modern literary, religious, and cultural texts to show how "the construction and futures of early modern whiteness were deeply bound up with the exploitation of racial capital, property, and personhood. Chakravarty proposes that the move toward a collective future "requires a reckoning with futurity's construction as a racial inheritance."