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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 55 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Robin Eller. |
| Summary |
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. Writing with sensitivity and depth, Berry resurrects the voices of the enslaved and provides a rare window into enslaved peoples' experiences and thoughts, revealing how enslaved people recalled and responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold throughout the course of their lives. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Slave trade -- United States -- History.
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Slaves -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Enslaved children -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Enslaved women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Older slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Eller, Robin.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541425880 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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154142588X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11897620 |
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