Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512826470ISBN-10:1512826472UPC:9781512826470Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC00NGS4YB
Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States
The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War
Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom's Currency follows enslaved people's efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of...Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9781512826470ISBN-10:1512826472UPC:9781512826470Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Slavery, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC00NGS4YB
Julia Wallace Bernier is Assistant Professor of History at Washington & Jefferson College.
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