The Slaves' Economy

Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

By: Ira Berlin (Editor), Philip D. Morgan (Editor)

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Slaves worked. When, where, and especially how, they worked determined the course of their lives and the shape of their culture. Slaves, naturally, served their owners for the most part, growing the great staples that stoked the international economy; but they also worked for themselves. They took control of a large part of their lives by producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing finished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds, and bequeathing property to their descendants. In many ways the slaves' independent economic endeavours offered a foundation for their domestic and community life, shaping the social structure of slave society and providing a material basis for their distinctive culture. Moreover, the character of the slaves' economy and the modest economic success achieved by black men and women during slavery influenced the hopes and aspirations they carried into freedom, giving direction to the post-emancipation struggle for equality. The legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the economic basis of the world the slaves made for themselves.

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Introduction	p. 1
The Caribbean
An Economic Life of Their Own: Slaves as Commodity Producers and Distributors in Barbados	p. 31
Provision Ground and Plantation Labour in Four Windward Islands: Competition for Resources during Slavery	p. 48
Une Petite Guinee: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848	p. 68
Slave Workers, Subsistence and Labour Bargaining: Amity Hall, Jamaica, 1805-1832	p. 92
Subsistence on the Plantation Periphery: Crops, Cooking and Labour Among Eighteenth-Century Suriname Maroons	p. 107
Mainland North America
As 'A Kind of Freeman'?: Slaves' Market-Related Activities in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860	p. 131
The Internal Economy of Slavery in Rural Piedmont Virginia	p. 170
Independent Economic Production by Slaves on Antebellum Louisiana Sugar Plantations	p. 182
Notes on Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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