Freedom's Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States

by Julia Wallace Bernier

The first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War

Enslaved people lived in a world in which everything had a price. Even freedom. Freedom's Currency follows enslaved people's efforts to buy themselves out of slavery across the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War. In the first comprehensive study of self-purchase in the nation, Julia Wallace...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512826472
• ISBN13: 9781512826470
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"