![]() ![]() Hill Edwards demonstrates that as enslavers embraced increasingly capitalist principles, enslaved people slowly lost their economic autonomy. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economic lives of enslaved people. ![]() Did these pursuits represent a modicum of freedom in the interstices of slavery, or did they further shackle enslaved people by other means? Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. ![]() They exchanged goods with nonslaveholding whites and even sold products to their enslavers. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce and raising livestock to trade and sell. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. ![]()
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