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Black Market - The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865 (Hardcover)
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Black Market - The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in United States Culture
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By 1860, the value of the slave population in the United States
exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in
factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than
the South's lucrative farmland. The slave was not only a commodity
to be traded but also a kind of currency and the basis for a range
of credit relations. But the value associated with slavery was not
destroyed in the Civil War. In Black Market, Aaron Carico reveals
how the slave commodity survived emancipation, arguing that the
enslaved person--understood here in legal, economic, social, and
embodied contexts--still operated as an indispensable form of value
in national culture. Through both archival research and lucid
readings of literature, art, and law, from the Fourteenth Amendment
to the first western, Carico breaks open the icons of liberalism to
expose the shaping influence of slavery's political economy in
America after 1865. Ultimately, Carico explains how a radically
incomplete--and fundamentally failed--abolition enabled the
emergence of a modern nation-state, in which slavery still
determined--and now goes on to determine--economic, political, and
cultural life.
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