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Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South

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The opportunity for slaves to produce goods, for their very own use or for sale, facilitated the development of a domestic economy in large part independent in their masters and the wider white community. Drawing from a range of number one sources, these essays show how slaves organised their domestic economy and created an economic and social space for themselves under slavery which profoundly affected circle of relatives and gender relations. Of their efforts to give protection to the integrity in their families they changed into number one actors Of their preparation for freedom. Selected and revised for publication, this selection of essays stems from the University of Rochester conference, “African-American Work and Culture within the 18th and 19th Centuries.” Contributors include: Josephine A. Beoku Betts, Kenneth L. Brown, John Campbell, Cheryll Ann Cody, Mary Beth Corrigan, Stanley, L. Engerman, Sharon Ann Holt, Larry E. Hudson Jr, Robert Olwell, Lorena S. Walsh

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