New Directions in Slavery Studies : Commodification, Community, and Comparison /

In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline's major themes commodification, community, and comparison and indicating paths for future inquiry. New Directions in Slavery Stu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sears, Christine E., 1969- (Autor, Editor ), Forret, Jeff, 1972- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slaves > United States > Social conditions.
Slavery > United States > History.
Sklaverei
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
USA
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears
  • Part I. Commodification
  • Commodity chains and chained commodities: the U.S. coastwise slave trade and an Atlantic business network / Calvin Schermerhorn
  • Silver buckles and slaves: borrowing, lending, and the commodification of slaves in Virginia communities / Bonnie Martin
  • "To realize money facilities": slave life insurance, the slave trade, and credit in the old south / Karen Ryder
  • Nat Turner in print and on film / Kenneth S. Greenberg
  • Part II. The slave community
  • Taking liberties: Saint Dominguan slaves and the formation of community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805 / John Davies
  • "A slave that will steal from a slave, is called mean as master": thefts and violence inside southern slave quarters / Jeff Forret
  • Bonds burst asunder: the transformation of the internal economy in Confederate Richmond / Kathleen M. Hilliard
  • The problem of autonomy: toward a postliberal history / Anthony E. Kaye
  • Part III. Comparative slavery
  • Slave women and urban labor in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Mariana Dantas
  • "In Algiers, the city of bondage": urban slavery in comparative context / Christine E. Sears
  • The nineteenth-century "other souths," modernization, and nation-building: expanding the comparative perspective / Enrico Dal Lago
  • "When I think how our family is scattered": comparing forced separation among antebellum slave families / Damian Alan Pargas.

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