The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
In The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, Daina Ramey Berry explores how enslaved people were assigned economic value throughout their lives, from birth to death. This historical study examines the relationship between slavery, monetary calculation, labor, and the nation-building process.
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Daina Ramey Berry examines the financial valuation of enslaved people across the span of life, from womb to grave.
The book explores how monetary measures shaped understandings of enslaved lives and labor.
By connecting these valuations to nation-building, it places slavery at the center of the economic and historical development of the United States.
This work offers a historical study of slavery, value, and the human cost of building a nation.
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