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Unfree markets : the slaves' economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina /

"Centering the slaves' economy in the rapid growth of capitalist enterprise in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American South, Justene Hill Edwards explores the detrimental influence of capitalist innovation on slaves' economic pursuits in South Carolina, the most pro-slavery s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill Edwards, Justene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Colección:Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People
  • "Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets": The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina
  • "This Infamous Traffick": Revolution in the Economic Lives of the Enslaved
  • "A Dangerous and Growing Practice": Enslaved Entrepreneurship and the Cotton Economy in the Early-National Era
  • "The Facility of Obtaining Money": Violence, Fear, and Accumulation in the Vesey Era
  • "The Negroes' Accounts": Capitalist Influences in the Slaves' Economy
  • "A Monstrous Nuisance": Enslaved Enterprises, Class Anxieties, and the Coming of the Civil War
  • Conclusion: "Freedom Ain't Nothin": Capitalism and Freedom in the Shadow of Slavery