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Black market : the slave's value in national culture after 1865 / Aaron Carico.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carico, Aaron, author.
- Series:
- Studies in United States culture.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Studies in United States culture
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freed persons--United States--Social conditions.
- Freed persons.
- Freed persons--United States--Economic conditions.
- Slavery--Economic aspects--United States.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This text reveals how the slave commodity survived emancipation, arguing that the enslaved person - understood here in legal, economic, social, and embodied contexts - still operated as an indispensable form of value in American national culture.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: The Unabolished
- Chapter One. Freedom as Accumulation
- Chapter Two. The Spectacle of Free Black Personhood
- Chapter Three. Cowboys and Slaves
- Chapter Four. Southern Enclosure as American Literature
- Conclusion: In the Trap
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9798890852175
- 9798890852182
- 9781469655598
- 1469655594
- 9781469655604
- 1469655608
- OCLC:
- 1152595602
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