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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aCarico, Aaron,
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245 1 0 _aThe black market :
_bthe slave's value in national culture after 1865 /
_cAaron Carico.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_c(c)2020.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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490 1 _aStudies in United States culture
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520 0 _a"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. 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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505 0 0 _aCover --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: The Unabolished --
_tChapter One. Freedom as Accumulation --
_tChapter Two. The Spectacle of Free Black Personhood --
_tChapter Three. Cowboys and Slaves --
_tChapter Four. Southern Enclosure as American Literature --
_tConclusion: In the Trap --
_tAcknowledgments --
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650 0 _aFreed persons
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aFreed persons
_zUnited States
_xEconomic conditions.
650 0 _aSlavery
_xEconomic aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBlack market
_zUnited States.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2458919&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell