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008 160831s2017 maua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780807047620$qhardcover
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035 $a(OCoLC)948734228
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050 00 $aE443$b.B446 2017
082 00 $a306.3/620973$223
100 1 $aBerry, Daina Ramey,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe price for their pound of flesh :$bthe value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation /$cDaina Ramey Berry.
264 1 $aBoston :$bBeacon Press,$c[2017]
300 $axvi, 262 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. Covering the full "life cycle" (including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death), historian Daina Berry shows the lengths to which slaveholders would go to maximize profits. She draws from over ten years of research to explore how enslaved people responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold. By illuminating their lives, Berry ensures that the individuals she studies are regarded as people, not merely commodities. Analyzing the depth of this monetization of human property will change the way we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, and nineteenth-century medical education"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-247) and index.
505 0 $aThe value of life and death -- Preconception, women, and future increase -- Infancy and childhood -- Adolescence, young adulthood, and soul values -- Mid-life and older adulthood -- Elderly and superannuated -- Postmortem, death, and ghost values -- Epilogue: The afterlives of slavery.
650 0 $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aChild slaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen slaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aOlder slaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
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