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Places women's labour at the centre of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labour. Alexandra 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.

An Intimate Economy

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      Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
      Published 1/30/2020 12:08:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781469655116
      978-1469655116
      ISBN-10 146965511X
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      Places women's labour at the centre of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved women's domestic, reproductive, and sexual labour. Alexandra 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.

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