A review by lexesmikasa
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

5.0

I'm so happy I stumble across this book one day. The fact of the matter is, there are more subjects related to Slavery and our ancestors that are simply not researched, not talked about, or acknowledged. To understand how valuable they were from the womb and even after death is an eye opener and more importantly, I appreciate that she took the time to research cadavers and how their bodies were not just mutilated after death, but stolen from their rightful burial places. There was information in this book that truly helped such as laws enacted for enslavers to still consider them property even in death and have the rights of allowing their body to be taken into medical research. Real accounts of women and men who were sold because of sexual reasons were just truly an eye-opener. To expand your knowledge or gain knowledge about a topic overlooked, I highly recommend this book