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From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.
Lippincott Library HD8066 .S68 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanley, Amy Dru.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--United States--History.
- Labor.
- Marriage.
- History.
- Contract labor.
- United States.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Contract labor--United States--History.
- Marriage--United States--History.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- This 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. Integrating the fields of gender and legal, intellectual and social history, it reveals how abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, laborers, lawmakers and others drew on contract to condemn chattel slavery and to measure the virtues of free society.
- Contents:
- 1 Legends of Contract Freedom 1
- 2 The Labor Question and the Sale of Self 60
- 3 Beggars Can't Be Choosers 98
- 4 The Testing Ground of Home Life 138
- 5 Wage Labor and Marriage Bonds 175
- 6 The Purchase of Women 218.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521414709
- 0521635268
- OCLC:
- 39633848
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