Hill Edwards Unfree Markets

The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54926-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill Edwards, Justene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People
1. “Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets”: The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina
2. “This Infamous Traffick”: The Slaves’ Trade in the Age of Revolution
3. “A Dangerous and Growing Practice”: Enslaved Entrepreneurship and the Cotton Economy in the New Nation
4. “The Facility of Obtaining Money”: Violence, Fear, and Accumulation in the Vesey Era
5. “The Negroes’ Accounts”: Capitalist Influences in the Slaves’ Economy
6. “A Monstrous Nuisance”: Enslaved Enterprises, Class Anxieties, and the Coming of the Civil War
Conclusion: “Freedom Ain’t Nothin”: Capitalism and Freedom in the Shadow of Slavery
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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