ISBN:
9780511583629
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.360973
Keywords:
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Sklaverei
;
Labor / United States / History
;
Slavery / United States / History
;
Contract labor / United States / History
;
Marriage / United States / History
;
Women / United States / Social conditions
;
Free choice of employment / United States
;
Freedmen / United States / History
;
Contracts / United States / History
;
Contracts / Social aspects / United States
;
Social values / United States / History
;
Ehevertrag
;
Arbeitsvertrag
;
Emanzipation
;
Sklave
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Sklave
;
Emanzipation
;
Arbeitsvertrag
;
USA
;
Sklave
;
Emanzipation
;
Ehevertrag
Abstract:
In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Legends of contract freedom -- Merchants of time: the labor question and the sale of self -- Beggars can't be choosers -- The testing ground of home life -- Wage labor and marriage bonds -- The purchase of women -- Afterword
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511583629
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