The Slaves' Economy

Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

• Author(s): Ira Berlin, Philip D. Morgan,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 213
• ISBN_10: 113519033X
  ISBN_13: 9781135190330
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / General , Business & Economics / Economics / General , History / General , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ,

Description:... Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.