The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
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The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
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The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

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Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.

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ISBN-13: 9781135190330
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/20/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 213
File size: 817 KB

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Philip D. Morgan, Ira Berlin

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The Slaves Economy can be recommended as a vade mecum to current work on the internal economy of slaves in the North Atlantic World." The Historical Association
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