New directions in slavery studies commodification, community, and comparison

Introduction / Jeff Forret and Christine E. SearsPart I. Commodification -- Commodity chains and chained commodities: the U.S. coastwise slave trade and an Atlantic business network / Calvin Schermerhorn -- Silver buckles and slaves: borrowing, lending, and the commodification of slaves in Virginia...

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Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 2015
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction / Jeff Forret and Christine E. SearsPart I. Commodification -- Commodity chains and chained commodities: the U.S. coastwise slave trade and an Atlantic business network / Calvin Schermerhorn -- Silver buckles and slaves: borrowing, lending, and the commodification of slaves in Virginia communities / Bonnie Martin -- "To realize money facilities": slave life insurance, the slave trade, and credit in the old south / Karen Ryder -- Nat Turner in print and on film / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- Part II. The slave community -- Taking liberties: Saint Dominguan slaves and the formation of community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805 / John Davies -- "A slave that will steal from a slave, is called mean as master": thefts and violence inside southern slave quarters / Jeff Forret -- Bonds burst asunder: the transformation of the internal economy in Confederate Richmond / Kathleen M. Hilliard -- The problem of autonomy: toward a postliberal history / Anthony E. Kaye -- Part III. Comparative slavery -- Slave women and urban labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Mariana Dantas -- "In Algiers, the city of bondage": urban slavery in comparative context / Christine E. Sears -- The nineteenth-century "other souths," modernization, and nation-building: expanding the comparative perspective / Enrico Dal Lago -- "When I think how our family is scattered": comparing forced separation among antebellum slave families / Damian Alan Pargas.
Introduction / Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears -- Part I. Commodification -- Commodity chains and chained commodities: the U.S. coastwise slave trade and an Atlantic business network / Calvin Schermerhorn -- Silver buckles and slaves: borrowing, lending, and the commodification of slaves in Virginia communities / Bonnie Martin -- "To realize money facilities": slave life insurance, the slave trade, and credit in the old south / Karen Ryder -- Nat Turner in print and on film / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- Part II. The slave community -- Taking liberties: Saint Dominguan slaves and the formation of community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805 / John Davies -- "A slave that will steal from a slave, is called mean as master": thefts and violence inside southern slave quarters / Jeff Forret -- Bonds burst asunder: the transformation of the internal economy in Confederate Richmond / Kathleen M. Hilliard -- The problem of autonomy: toward a postliberal history / Anthony E. Kaye -- Part III. Comparative slavery -- Slave women and urban labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Mariana Dantas -- "In Algiers, the city of bondage": urban slavery in comparative context / Christine E. Sears -- The nineteenth-century "other souths," modernization, and nation-building: expanding the comparative perspective / Enrico Dal Lago -- "When I think how our family is scattered": comparing forced separation among antebellum slave families / Damian Alan Pargas
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:viii, 261 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:0807161152
0-8071-6115-2
9780807161159
978-0-8071-6115-9