Slaves for Hire : Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia /

In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previously, scholars viewed slave hiring as an aberration-a modified form of slavery, involving primarily urban male slaves, that worked to the laborer's advantage and weakened slaver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zaborney, John J., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slaves > Employment.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slavery.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Esclaves > Travail > Virginie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > Virginie > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Slaves > Employment > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Virginia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Virginia.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origins and proliferation of slave hiring in Virginia
  • Hired slave women
  • Slave hiring and hired slaves' family and friendship ties in rural areas
  • Hired slaves, whites, and slavery
  • White ladies, white men, masters all: slave hiring and white society
  • Slave hiring, hired slaves, and urban and industrial slavery
  • Slave hiring and slavery.

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