176 The Value of the Enslaved From Womb to Grave
What did it mean to be a person and to also be a commodity in early America? , author of , takes us behind the scenes of her research so we can explore how early Americans valued and commodified enslaved men, women, and children. Show...
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What did it mean to be a person and to also be a commodity in early America?
Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, takes us behind the scenes of her research so we can explore how early Americans valued and commodified enslaved men, women, and children.
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