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Copyt Link Here : https://tanambijiqurma.blogspot.com/?koora=0807067148 Book Synopsis : Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. 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. This book is the culmination of more than ten years of Berry’s exhaustive research on enslaved values, drawing on data unearthed from sources such as slave-trading records, insurance policies, cemetery records, and life insurance policies. Writing with sensitivity and depth, she 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 througho
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Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America
In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. 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.
This book is the culmination of more than ten years of Berry’s exhaustive research on enslaved values, drawing on data unearthed from sources such as slave-trading records, insurance policies, cemetery records, and life insurance policies. Writing with sensitivity and depth, she 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 througho
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of
the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building
of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
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Publisher : Beacon Press; Reprint edition (December 26, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 280 pages
ISBN-10 : 0807067148
ISBN-13 : 978-0807067147
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #195,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned
based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. 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.
This book is the culmination of more than ten years of Berry’s exhaustive
research on enslaved values, drawing on data unearthed from sources such as
slave-trading records, insurance policies, cemetery records, and life insurance
policies. Writing with sensitivity and depth, she 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. Reaching
out from these pages, they compel the reader to bear witness to their stories,
to see them as human beings, not merely commodities.
A profoundly humane look at an inhumane institution, will have a major
impact how we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, nineteenthcentury
medical education, and the value of life and death.
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