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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

by Amy Dru Stanley (university Of Chicago)

  • Paperback
  • 294 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

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For scholars interested in historical labour and marriage

Explains the impact of contracts on freedom and slavery

You will gain a deeper understanding of historical issues

This insightful book examines the role of contracts in freedom and slavery debates in 19th-century America.

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This 1999 book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life.
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  • Title

    From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

  • Author

    Amy Dru Stanley (university Of Chicago)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 1998

  • Weight

    405g

  • Page Count

    294

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521635264

  • ISBN-10

    0521635268

  • Eden Code

    5014031

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