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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

Stanley, Amy Dru

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19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0521635268
ISBN13: 9780521635264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 13 1998
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.97 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
This book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life. Integrating the fields of gender and legal, intellectual and social history, it reveals how abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, laborers, lawmakers and others drew on contract to condemn chattel slavery and to measure the virtues of free society.

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