Freedom's currency: slavery, capitalism, and self-purchase in the United States / Julia Wallace Bernier.
| Author/creator | Bernier, Julia Wallace author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024] |
| Description | 208 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "In Hand Paid": compensation and gradual emancipation in the North -- "Plans for money-making": financing freedom in the South -- "Ransomed!" second-wave abolition and self-purchase -- "Purchaser of my body and soul": buying freedom and national politics after 1850. |
| Abstract | "Freedom's Currency argues that freedom played a central role in the social and economic lives of the enslaved and in the ways that these aspects of their lives overlapped. This intimate portrait of community illuminates the complexity of enslaved people's ideas about their place at the intersection of slavery and American capitalism and their attempts to value freedom above all." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781512826470 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1512826472 hardcover |