Freedom's currency: slavery, capitalism, and self-purchase in the United States

"Freedom's Currency argues that freedom played a central role in the social and economic lives of the enslaved and in the ways that these aspects of their lives overlapped. This intimate portrait of community illuminates the complexity of enslaved people's ideas about their place at t...

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Main Author: Bernier, Julia Wallace (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 2024
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Summary:"Freedom's Currency argues that freedom played a central role in the social and economic lives of the enslaved and in the ways that these aspects of their lives overlapped. This intimate portrait of community illuminates the complexity of enslaved people's ideas about their place at the intersection of slavery and American capitalism and their attempts to value freedom above all."
Item Description:"Revised dissertation"
Physical Description:208 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781512826470

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