Money over mastery, family over freedom : slavery in the antebellum upper South / Calvin Schermerhorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975- author.

Series:

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons--Family relationships--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Slave trade--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Southern States--History--19th century.

African American families--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Social conditions--19th century.

African American families.

Plantation life--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.

Plantation life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Prologue; 1 Networkers; 2 Watermen; 3 Domestics; 4 Makers; 5 Railroaders; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4214-0089-8

OCLC:

794700378