ISBN:
9780807161166
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620973
Keywords:
Slavery-United States-History
;
Slaves-United States-Social conditions
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: COMMODIFICATION -- 1. Commodity Chains and Chained Commodities: The U.S. Coastwise Slave Trade and an Atlantic Business Network -- 2. Silver Buckles and Slaves: Borrowing, Lending, and the Commodification of Slaves in Virginia Communities -- 3. "To Realize Money Facilities": Slave Life Insurance, the Slave Trade, and Credit in the Old South -- 4. Nat Turner in Print and on Film -- Part II: THE SLAVE COMMUNITY -- 5. Taking Liberties: Saint Dominguan Slaves and the Formation of Community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805 -- 6. "A Slave That Will Steal from a Slave, Is Called Mean as Master": Thefts and Violence inside Southern Slave Quarters -- 7. Bonds Burst Asunder: The Transformation of the Internal Economy in Confederate Richmond -- 8. The Problem of Autonomy: Toward a Postliberal History -- Part III: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY -- 9. Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World -- 10. "In Algiers, the City of Bondage": Urban Slavery in Comparative Context -- 11. The Nineteenth-Century "Other Souths," Modernization, and Nation-Building: Expanding the Comparative Perspective -- 12. "When I Think How Our Family Is Scattered": Comparing Forced Separation among Antebellum Slave Families -- Contributors.
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