[PDF.32vm] The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Freedom in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Freedom in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

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 | #4474213 in Books |  Routledge |  1999-12-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .64 x5.51 x8.26l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||From Library Journal|Whitman (history, Mount St. Mary's Coll., Maryland) examines the complexities of slavery and master-slave relations in early Federal Baltimore. The ownership of slaves was a sizable investment, and Whitman illustrates that masters minimized

The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labour. The author argues that the creation of "term slavery" and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled sla...

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