The black market : the slave's value in national culture after 1865 /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in United States culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
