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Book SynopsisSlaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.
Trade ReviewThis elegantly written and engaging monograph is required reading for students of nineteenth-century North Carolina history. -- Sean Condon North Carolina Historical Review There is much to admire in Schermerhorn's book... A compelling, finely grained study. -- Max Grivno Journal of American History [A] valuable study... Anyone interested in slavery and the antebellum South will profit from reading it. -- Frank Towers Journal of the Early Republic Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom displays exhaustive research, a well-crafted argument, and is a valuable addition to antebellum slave historiography. -- Brett J. Derbes H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews Elegantly argued and sharply written Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom convincingly shows the centrality of enslaved men and women to the transformation of the coastal upper South's commercial life and the ways they mitigated this modernizing project. -- Ted Pearson Journal of Southern History
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword
Prologue
1. Networkers
2. Watermen
3. Domestics
4. Makers
5. Railroads
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
