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Author
Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975-
Title
Money over mastery, family over freedom : slavery in the antebellum upper South / Calvin Schermerhorn
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
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Description
1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : maps
Series
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Contents
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Prologue; 1 Networkers; 2 Watermen; 3 Domestics; 4 Makers; 5 Railroaders; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary
Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade
Notes
OldControl:muse9781421400891
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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Subject
Plantation life -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century
African American families -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 19th century
African American families -- Social conditions.
Plantation life.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slavery -- Economic aspects.
Enslaved persons -- Family relationships.
Southern States.
United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region.
Genre/Form
Electronic books
History.
Form
Electronic book
LC no.
2010046799
ISBN
9781421400891
1421400898
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