New directions in slavery studies : commodification, community, and comparison /
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.