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

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

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This 1999 book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections between abolition in the South and industrial capitalism in the North and linking labor relations to home life.
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  • Author

    Amy Dru Stanley (university Of Chicago)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 1998

  • Weight

    405g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.8 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521635264

  • ISBN-10

    0521635268

  • Eden Code

    5014031

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