The price for their pound of flesh : the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation / Daina Ramey Berry.
"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. Covering the full "life cycle" (including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death), historian Daina Berry shows the lengths to which slaveholders would go to maximize profits."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807047620
- ISBN: 0807047627
- Physical Description: xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-247) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The value of life and death -- Preconception, women, and future increase -- Infancy and childhood -- Adolescence, young adulthood, and soul values -- Mid-life and older adulthood -- Elderly and superannuated -- Postmortem, death, and ghost values -- Epilogue: The afterlives of slavery. |