Slave badges and the slave-hire system in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865

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Slave badges and the slave-hire system in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865

Harlan Greene and Harry S. Hutchins, Jr., with Brian E. Hutchins

McFarland & Co., c2004

  • : softcover

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Slave badges and the slave-hire system in Charleston

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Reprint of the illustrated case bound ed., published in 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-190) and index

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内容説明

The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object--the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required by law to wear them. Slave badges have become quite collectible and have excited both scholarly and popular interest in recent years. This work documents how the slave-hire system in Charleston came about, how it worked, who was in charge of it, and who enforced the laws regarding slave badges. Numerous badge makers are identified, and photographs of badges, with commentary on what the data stamped on them mean, are included. The authors located income and expense statements for Charleston from 1783 to 1865, and deduced how many slaves were hired out in the city every year from 1800 on. The work also discusses forgeries of slave badges, now quite common. There is a section of 20 color plates.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction      PART ONE: THE BADGE LAWS: A SUMMARY, 1670–1866      1. 1670–1822: Laws of the Colony and the Early Republic      2. 1823–1866: Laws of the Antebellum and Civil War Period      Between pages 66 and 67 are eight pages of plates depicting 39 slave badges PART TWO: THE SYSTEM: ANNUAL RECAPITULATIONS OF INCOME AND EXPENSES AND A GUIDE TO THE BADGES 3. 1800–1810      4. 1811–1820      5. 1821–1830      6. 1831–1840      7. 1841–1850      8. 1851–1860      9. 1861–1865      Afterword: A Note on Counterfeits      Appendix 1: A Note on the Mathematical Formula      Appendix 2: A Note on Sources      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index     

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