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371 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781316635438
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 14 December 2017
Description
Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s,...
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371 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781316635438
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 14 December 2017
Description
Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s,...