An intimate economy : enslaved women, work, and America's domestic slave trade / Alexandra J. Finley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finley, Alexandra J., author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--United States--History.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States.

Slavery.

Enslaved women--Employment--United States--History.

Enslaved women.

Women--Employment--United States--History.

Women.

Slavery--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

This work places women's labour at the centre of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labour. Alexandra Finley shows how women's work was necessary to the functioning of the slave trade, and thus to the spread of slavery to the Lower South.

Contents:

Fancy

Seamstress

Concubine

Housekeeper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

979-88-908571-2-5

979-88-908571-3-2

1-4696-5512-8

1-4696-5513-6

OCLC:

1159421207