Dark Work : : The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island / / Christy Clark-Pujara.
Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode IslandHistorians have written expansively about the slave economy and its vital role in early American economic life. Like their northern neighbors, Rhode Islanders bought and sold slaves and supplies that s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Places ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Business of Slavery and the Making of Race
- 2. Living and Laboring under Slavery
- 3. Emancipation in Black and White
- 4. The Legacies of Enslavement
- 5. Building a Free Community
- 6. Building a Free State and Nation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author