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The Slaves' economy : independent production by slaves in the Americas
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- Creator
- edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London, England ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, [1991]
- ©1991
- Physical Details
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- 213 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0714634350, 9780714634364, 0714634360
- OCLC
- ocm23901111
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- An economic life of their own : slaves as commodity producers and distributors in Barbados / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Provision ground and plantation labour in four Windward Islands : competition for resources during slavery / Woodville K. Marshall -- Une Petite Guinée : provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848 / Dale Tomich -- Slave workers, subsistence and labour bargaining : Amity Hall, Jamaica, 1805-1832 / Mary Turner -- Subsistence on the plantation periphery : crops, cooking and labour among eighteenth-century Suriname Maroons / Richard Price -- As 'A kind of freeman'? : slaves' market-related activities in the South Carolina upcountry, 1800-1860 / John Campbell -- the internal economy of slavery in rural Piedmont Virginia / John T. Schlotterbeck -- Independent economic production by slaves on antebellum Louisiana sugar plantations / Roderick A. McDonald