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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

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This “must-read for anyone interested in understanding American history” reframes how we think about slavery, reparations, 19th-century medical education—and the value of life and death (Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton).

“A brilliant resurrection of the forgotten people who gave their lives to build our country. —Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, ...