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

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

Amy Dru Stanley

294 pages first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This 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 ca...

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