From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.

In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals,...

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Main Author:	Stanley, Amy Dru (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	Labor > United States > History. Slavery > United States > History. Contract labor > United States > History. Marriage > United States > History. Women > United States > Social conditions. Free choice of employment > United States. Freedmen > United States > History. Contracts > United States > History. Contracts > Social aspects > United States. Social values > United States > History.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583629
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