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04224aam a2200493 i 4500 001 892F6862323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200825s2021 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020038704 020 $a 0231191138 020 $a 9780231191135 020 $a 023119112X 020 $a 9780231191128 035 $a (OCoLC)1192303908 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d IaU-L $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-sc 050 00 $a E445.S7 $b H55 2021 082 00 $a 306.3/6209757 $2 23 100 1 $a Hill Edwards, Justene, $e author. 245 10 $a Unfree markets : $b the slaves' economy and the rise of capitalism in South Carolina / $c Justene Hill Edwards. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 269 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism 520 $a "Centering the slaves' economy in the rapid growth of capitalist enterprise in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American South, Justene Hill Edwards explores the detrimental influence of capitalist innovation on slaves' economic pursuits in South Carolina, the most pro-slavery state in America. Examining the strategies enslaved people used to make money and obtain goods for themselves, and one of the fullest accounts to date of slaves' market practices, Edwards argues that the slaves' economy helped to fuel South Carolina's economic growth--which meant a continuation of the violent and exploitative regime that shaped slave's lives. Enslaved peoples' slow loss of economic autonomy coincided with the capitalist evolution of slavery. Edwards starts by looking at the economic activity of slaves during colonial era South Carolina, considering how they navigated the laws and institutions of slavery in trading with both free and enslaved people. She looks at how the social unrest of the American Revolution provided opportunity for increased trade, and explores the growing autonomy enslaved people saw in trade, often formalized through the courts. However, as the plantations turned their attention to increased profitability, plantation owners increasingly looked to their slave's economic activity as an source of profit. So began the erosion of economic autonomy, as the gains from trade were increasingly captured by slave owners"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-260) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Capitalism in the Economic Lives of Enslaved People -- "Negroes Publickly Cabaling in the Streets": The Enslaved Economy and the Culture of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina -- "This Infamous Traffick": Revolution in the Economic Lives of the Enslaved -- "A Dangerous and Growing Practice": Enslaved Entrepreneurship and the Cotton Economy in the Early-National Era -- "The Facility of Obtaining Money": Violence, Fear, and Accumulation in the Vesey Era -- "The Negroes' Accounts": Capitalist Influences in the Slaves' Economy -- "A Monstrous Nuisance": Enslaved Enterprises, Class Anxieties, and the Coming of the Civil War -- Conclusion: "Freedom Ain't Nothin": Capitalism and Freedom in the Shadow of Slavery. 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a Slaves $z South Carolina $x Economic conditions. 650 0 $a Capitalism $z South Carolina $x History. 650 7 $a Capitalism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846425 650 7 $a Economic history $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Slaves $x Economic conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120537 651 0 $a South Carolina $x Economic conditions $y 18th century. 651 0 $a South Carolina $x Economic conditions $y 19th century. 651 7 $a South Carolina $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204600 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Edwards, Justene Hill. $t Unfree markets $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. $z 9780231549264 $w (DLC) 2020038705 830 0 $a Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012857.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220301010923.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=892F6862323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search