Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Hill Edwards, Justene
Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Hill Edwards, Justene

Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them...
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Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Hill Edwards, Justene

Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

$488.89
Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Hill Edwards, Justene

Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

$488.89
Author: Justene Hill Edwards
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means?

Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves' economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people. Hill Edwards demonstrates that as enslavers embraced increasingly capitalist principles, enslaved people slowly lost their economic autonomy. As slaveholders became more profit-oriented in the nineteenth century, they also sought to control enslaved people's economic behavior and capture the gains. Despite enslaved people's aptitude for enterprise, their market activities came to be one more part of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped their lives. Drawing on wide-ranging archival research to expand our understanding of racial capitalism, Unfree Markets shows the limits of the connection between economic activity and freedom.

Author: Justene Hill Edwards
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780231191128

About the Author
Justene Hill Edwards is an assistant professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
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