From Bondage to Contract Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation

Name: From Bondage to Contract Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780521635264

ISBN-10: 0521635268

ISBN-13: 9780521635264

Edition: 1998

Authors: Amy Dru Stanley

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In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. This book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers drew on the idea of contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery.

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880



Preface


Acknowledgments



Legends of Contract Freedom



The Labor Question and the Sale of Self



Beggars Can't Be Choosers



The Testing Ground of Home Life



Wage Labor and Marriage Bonds



The Purchase of Women


Afterword


Index