The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman.
Paradoxically, in the decades following the Revolution, slavery in Baltimore gained strength even as slaves were being freed in record numbers. The vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves with craft skills. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, ow...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Slavery in early national Baltimore and rural Maryland
- Industrial slavery in Baltimore
- The black drive for autonomy and masters' responses
- Manumission and the transformation of slavery
- Free black family strategies for gaining freedom
- Political-economic thought and free blacks.