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_q(ebook)
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100 1 _aHill Edwards, Justene,
_eauthor.
_996616
245 1 0 _aUnfree markets :
_bthe slaves' economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina
_cJustene Hill Edwards.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2021
263 _a2104
300 _a269p
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aColumbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People -- "Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets": The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina -- "This Infamous Traffick": Revolution in the Economic Lives of the Enslaved -- "A Dangerous and Growing Practice": Enslaved Entrepreneurship and the Cotton Economy in the Early-National Era -- "The Facility of Obtaining Money": Violence, Fear, and Accumulation in the Vesey Era -- "The Negroes' Accounts": Capitalist Influences in the Slaves' Economy -- "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.
520 _a"Centering the slaves' economy in the rapid growth of capitalist enterprise in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American South, Justene Hill Edwards explores the detrimental influence of capitalist innovation on slaves' economic pursuits in South Carolina, the most pro-slavery state in America. Examining the strategies enslaved people used to make money and obtain goods for themselves, and one of the fullest accounts to date of slaves' market practices, Edwards argues that the slaves' economy helped to fuel South Carolina's economic growth--which meant a continuation of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped slave's lives. Enslaved peoples' slow loss of economic autonomy coincided with the capitalist evolution of slavery. Edwards starts by looking at the economic activity of slaves during colonial era South Carolina, considering how they navigated the laws and institutions of slavery in trading with both free and enslaved people. She looks at how the social unrest of the American Revolution provided opportunity for increased trade, and explores the growing autonomy enslaved people saw in trade, often formalized through the courts. However, as the plantations turned their attention to increased profitability, plantation owners increasingly looked to their slave's economic activity as an source of profit. So began the erosion of economic autonomy, as the gains from trade were increasingly captured by slave owners"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650 0 _aSlaves
_zSouth Carolina
_xEconomic conditions.
_996617
650 0 _aCapitalism
_zSouth Carolina
_xHistory.
_996618
651 0 _aSouth Carolina
_xEconomic conditions
_y18th century.
_996619
651 0 _aSouth Carolina
_xEconomic conditions
_y19th century.
_996620
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aHill Edwards, Justene.
_tUnfree markets
_dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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830 0 _aColumbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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