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An Intimate Economy - Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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An Intimate Economy - Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade (Hardcover)
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Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous
debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by
placing women's labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade,
focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from
enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor. The
slave market infiltrated every aspect of southern society,
including the most personal spaces of the household, the body, and
the self, Finley shows how women's work was necessary to the
functioning of the slave trade, and thus to the spread of slavery
to the Lower South, the expansion of cotton production, and the
profits accompanying both of these markets. Through the personal
histories of four enslaved women, Finley explores the intangible
costs of the slave market, moving beyond ledgers, bills of sales,
and statements of profit and loss to consider the often
incalculable but nevertheless invaluable place of women's
emotional, sexual, and domestic labor in the economy. The details
of these women's lives reveal the complex intersections of economy,
race, and family at the heart of antebellum society.
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