Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

Contributor(s): Schermerhorn, Calvin (Author)

ISBN: 9781421400358

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Hardcover

$65.95

Pub Date: June 2, 2011

Dewey: 975.51803

LCCN: 2010046799

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.00" L x 6.10" W ( 1.15 lbs) 296 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Libra

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.

Brief description: Calvin Schermerhorn is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University.

Review Quotes: Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom displays exhaustive research, a well-crafted argument, and is a valuable addition to antebellum slave historiography.
--Brett J. Derbes, H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews

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