Columbia Studies in the History of U. S. Capitalism Ser.: Unfree Markets : The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Justene Hill Edwards (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Unfree Markets : The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina, Paperback by Edwards, Justene Hill, ISBN 0231191138, ISBN-13 9780231191135, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.

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PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231191138

ISBN-139780231191135

eBay Product ID (ePID)9050025452

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Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameUnfree Markets : the Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

Publication Year2021

SubjectSlavery, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, United States / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorJustene Hill Edwards

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

SeriesColumbia Studies in the History of U. S. Capitalism Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2020-038704

ReviewsUnfree Markets is a clearly written, persuasive study that will appeal to anyone interested in slavery, early capitalism, and the antebellum South., Centering enslaved men, women, and children as actors on the grand stage of South Carolina's economy, Hill Edwards demonstrates that the entrepreneurial enterprises of the enslaved did not undermine the institution of bondage but instead reinforced it. Beautifully written and researched, Unfree Markets is a welcome addition to the history of African Americans and capitalism., A rich study of an important and understudied topic. Unfree Markets illuminates the many ways enslaved people participated in the expanding markets of early America. Justene Hill Edwards brings new insights to our understanding of how markets changed enslaved people's day-to-day economic lives, never losing sight of the profound ways that these same markets continued to undermine their freedom., Unfree Markets deserves distinctions and superlatives for treating enslaved people as economic agents rather than participants in a slave economy segregated from larger processes of commercial life and capitalist development. Edwards brilliantly and convincingly argues that enslavers protected enslaved people's moneymaking ventures because they realized that the slaves' economy helped to safeguard their investments in slavery.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.3/6209757

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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

SynopsisThe everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means? 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. Hill Edwards demonstrates that as enslavers embraced increasingly capitalist principles, enslaved people slowly lost their economic autonomy. As slaveholders became more profit-oriented in the nineteenth century, they also sought to control enslaved people's economic behavior and capture the gains. Despite enslaved people's aptitude for enterprise, their market activities came to be one more part of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped their lives. Drawing on wide-ranging archival research to expand our understanding of racial capitalism, Unfree Markets shows the limits of the connection between economic activity and freedom., 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.

LC Classification NumberE445.S7H55 2021