Freedom's currency: slavery, capitalism, and self-purchase in the United States /
"Freedom's Currency argues that freedom played a central role in the social and economic lives of the enslaved and in the ways that these aspects of their lives overlapped. This intimate portrait of community illuminates the complexity of enslaved people's ideas about their place at t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2024]
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| Summary: | "Freedom's Currency argues that freedom played a central role in the social and economic lives of the enslaved and in the ways that these aspects of their lives overlapped. This intimate portrait of community illuminates the complexity of enslaved people's ideas about their place at the intersection of slavery and American capitalism and their attempts to value freedom above all." |
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| Physical Description: | 208 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781512826470 1512826472 |