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Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom
Calvin Schermerhorn
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Description for Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom
Paperback. Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade. Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves seized opportunities in these conditions to protect their family members from the auction block. Calvin Schermerhorn argues that the African American family provided the key to economic growth in the antebellum Chesapeake. To maximize profits in the burgeoning regional industries, slaveholders needed to employ or hire out a healthy supply of ... Read more
Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom tells the story of how slaves seized opportunities in these conditions to protect their family members from the auction block. Calvin Schermerhorn argues that the African American family provided the key to economic growth in the antebellum Chesapeake. To maximize profits in the burgeoning regional industries, slaveholders needed to employ or hire out a healthy supply of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421400365
SKU
V9781421400365
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About Calvin Schermerhorn
Calvin Schermerhorn is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University.
Reviews for Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom
This elegantly written and engaging monograph is required reading for students of nineteenth-century North Carolina history.
Sean Condon North Carolina Historical Review There is much to admire in Schermerhorn's book... A compelling, finely grained study.
Max Grivno Journal of American History [A] valuable study... Anyone interested in slavery and the antebellum South will profit from reading it.
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Sean Condon North Carolina Historical Review There is much to admire in Schermerhorn's book... A compelling, finely grained study.
Max Grivno Journal of American History [A] valuable study... Anyone interested in slavery and the antebellum South will profit from reading it.
... Read more