Masters, Slaves, and Exchange : Power's Purchase in the Old South
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South
ISBN-10
1107636647
ISBN-13
9781107636644
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 23rd, 2013
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.10 x 1.40 cms
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This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters.
This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, stole property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten exchanges, this study argues, measured the deepest questions of worth and value, shaping an enduring struggle for power between slaves and masters. The slaves'' internal economy focused intense paternalist negotiation on a ground where categories of exchange provision, gift, contraband, and commodity were in constant flux. At once binding and alienating, these ties endured constant moral stresses and material manipulation by masters and slaves alike, galvanizing conflict and engendering complex new social relations on and off the plantation.
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