Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

(Part of the Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Series)

by Calvin Schermerhorn

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Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves seized opportunities in these conditions to protect their family members from the auction block.

Calvin Schermerhorn argues that the African...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421400367

ISBN13:9781421400365

Release Date:June 2011

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

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