The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

by T. Stephen Whitman
The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

by T. Stephen Whitman

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Overview

The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labor. The author argues that the creation of "term slavery" and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled slaves wielded considerable power in negotiating the terms of their labor. This meticulous study sheds new light on free and unfree labor during the early national period.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813183589
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 05/11/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

T. Stephen Whitman is assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Mapsix
List of Tablesxi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction1
1Slavery in Early National Baltimore and Rural Maryland8
2Industrial Slavery in Baltimore33
3The Black Drive for Autonomy and Masters' Responses61
4Manumission and the Transformation of Slavery93
5Free Black Family Strategies for Gaining Freedom119
6Political-Economic Thought and Free Blacks140
Conclusions158
Appendix ABaltimore Slaveholders, 1790-1820167
Appendix BOccupational Categories170
Appendix CSale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life175
Notes178
Bibliography216
Index233
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