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Antebellum slave trade
Author_Alexandra J. Finley
Boardinghouses
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Concubines
Domestic labor
Domestic servants
Emotional labor
Enslaved women's labor
Enslaved women’s labor
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Fancy girls
Fancy trade
Gender and slavery
Gendered resistance to slavery
Household production
Louisiana
New Orleans
Nineteenth-century capitalism
Reproductive labor
Richmond
Seamstresses
Sexual economy of slavery
Sexual exploitation of enslaved women
Slave clothing
slaveholders
slavery
Slavery and capitalism
slavery and sexuality
Slavery and the economy in the antebellum south
Slavery in the city
southern states
Virginia
Women and capitalism
Women and slavery
Women's involvement with the slave trade
Women's resistance to slavery
Women’s involvement with the slave trade
Women’s resistance to slavery
Product details
- ISBN 9781469655116
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women's labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor. The slave market infiltrated every aspect of southern society, including the most personal spaces of the household, the body, and the self, Finley shows how women's work was necessary to the functioning of the slave trade, and thus to the spread of slavery to the Lower South, the expansion of cotton production, and the profits accompanying both of these markets.
Through the personal histories of four enslaved women, Finley explores the intangible costs of the slave market, moving beyond ledgers, bills of sales, and statements of profit and loss to consider the often incalculable but nevertheless invaluable place of women's emotional, sexual, and domestic labor in the economy. The details of these women's lives reveal the complex intersections of economy, race, and family at the heart of antebellum society.
Through the personal histories of four enslaved women, Finley explores the intangible costs of the slave market, moving beyond ledgers, bills of sales, and statements of profit and loss to consider the often incalculable but nevertheless invaluable place of women's emotional, sexual, and domestic labor in the economy. The details of these women's lives reveal the complex intersections of economy, race, and family at the heart of antebellum society.
Alexandra Finley is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
