Slaves for hire : renting enslaved laborers in antebellum Virginia /
In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previously, scholars viewed slave hiring as an aberration-a modified form of slavery, involving primarily urban male slaves, that worked to the laborer's advantage and weakened slaver...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2012]
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