The Slaves' economy : independent production by slaves in the Americas

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The Slaves' economy : independent production by slaves in the Americas

edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan

Frank Cass, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.

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The Slaves Economy can be recommended as a vade mecum to current work on the internal economy of slaves in the North Atlantic World." The Historical Association

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