Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture After 1865
(Part of the Studies in United States Culture Series)
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On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this value was not destroyed in the war. Slavery still structured social relations...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469655586
ISBN13:9781469655581
Release Date:June 2020
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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