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Whitman, T. Stephen The Price Of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
Lexington KY University Press of Kentucky 1997 0813120047 / 9780813120041 First Edition Hardcover New in New dust jacket
NEW hardcover book and dustjacket. Unread and unused. . 0.9 x 9.34 x 6.3 Inches. The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labor. The author argues that the creation of "term slavery" and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled slaves wielded considerable power in negotiating the terms of their labor. This meticulous study sheds new light on free and unfree labor during the early national period.
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