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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Berry, Daina Ramey.     Subjects     Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.     Slave trade -- United States -- History.     Slaves -- United States -- Economic conditions -- History.     Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.     Blacks -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Berry, Daina Ramey.       by title:      The price for their ...       by call number:      306.3620973 B534p     Search the Web     Berry, Daina Ramey.     Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.     Slave trade -- United States -- History.     Slaves -- United States -- Economic conditions -- History.     Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.     Blacks -- United States -- History.       MARC Display

The price for their pound of flesh : the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation / Daina Ramey Berry. by Berry, Daina Ramey. Beacon Press, [2017] Call #: 306.3620973 B534p Subjects Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.   Slave trade -- United States -- History.   Slaves -- United States -- Economic conditions -- History.   Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.   Blacks -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780807047620 (hc.) Description:  xvi, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  The Value of Life and Death -- Preconception, Women, and Future Increase -- Infancy and Childhood -- Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Soul Values -- Mid-Life and Older Adulthood -- Elderly and Superannuated -- Postmortem, Death, and Ghost Values -- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Slavery. Summary:  Explores the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives during the American domestic slave trade. Historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to maximize profits and protect their investments, including the little-known domestic cadaver trade with dead bodies being sold to medical schools. By illuminating their lives, Berry ensures that the individuals she studies are regarded as people, not merely commodities. Analyzing the depth of this monetization of human property will change the way we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, and nineteenth-century medical education"--Provided by publisher. Daina Berry is an associate professor of history and African and African disapora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 306.3620973 B534p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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