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New directions in slavery studies : commodification, community, and comparison
- Title
- New directions in slavery studies : commodification, community, and comparison / edited by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
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- Description
- viii, 261 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1852
- ISBN
- 9780807161159
- 0807161152
- 9780807161166 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807161173 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807161180 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015019696
- OCLC
- 908373768
- Title
- New directions in slavery studies : commodification, community, and comparison / edited by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Forret, Jeff, 1972- editor.Sears, Christine E., 1969- editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1852