Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South by Calvin Schermerhorn

Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South

Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia (Hardcover)

Calvin Schermerhorn

286 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, F...

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