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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zaborney, John J., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 slavery's institutional integrity. In the first in-depth examination of slave hiring in Virginia, Zaborney suggests that this endemic practice bolstered the institution of slavery in the decades leading up to the Civil War, all but assuring Virginia's secession from the Union to protect slavery. Moving beyond p.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780807145135

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