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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
€19.95
In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives–including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death–in the early American domestic slave trade. Covering the full “life cycle,” historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to maximize profits and protect their investments. Illuminating “ghost values” or the prices placed on dead enslaved people, Berry explores the little-known domestic cadaver trade and traces the illicit sales of dead bodies to medical schools.
Author: Berry, Daina Ramey Year: 2017 ISBN: 9780807067147 Pages: 262 Language: English Publisher: Beacon Press Publisher's city: Boston Publication date: