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001 2015019696
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008 150515s2015 lau 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aE441$b.N48 2015
082 00 $a306.3/620973$223
245 00 $aNew directions in slavery studies :$bcommodification, community, and comparison /$cedited by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears.
263 $a1506
264 1 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
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338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
700 1 $aForret, Jeff,$d1972-$eeditor,$eauthor.
700 1 $aSears, Christine E.,$d1969-$eeditor,$eauthor.