TY  - GEN
T1  - The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland
A1  - Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950-
LA  - English
PP  - Lexington, Ky.
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm47011457
AB  - A stereotypical image of manumission is that of a benign plantation owner freeing his slaves on his deathbed. But as Stephen Whitman demonstrates, the truth was far more complex, especially in border states where manumission was much more common. Whitman analyzes the economic and social history of Baltimore to show how the vigorous growth of the city required the exploitation of rural slaves. To prevent them from escaping and to spur higher production, owners entered into arrangements with their slaves, promising eventual freedom in return for many years' hard work. The Price of Freedom revea.
OP  - 238
CN  - E445.M3 W45 1997eb
SN  - 0813170222
SN  - 9780813170220
SN  - 9780813165097
SN  - 0813165091
SN  - 9780813183589
SN  - 0813183588
SN  - 0813120047
SN  - 9780813120041
SN  - 0415926084
SN  - 9780415926089
SN  - 0813155541
SN  - 9780813155548
KW  - Slavery : Maryland.
KW  - Slavery : Maryland : Baltimore.
KW  - Enslaved persons : Emancipation : Maryland.
KW  - Enslaved persons : Emancipation : Maryland : Baltimore.
KW  - Maryland : History.
KW  - Maryland : Race relations.
KW  - Baltimore (Md.) : History.
KW  - Baltimore (Md.) : Race relations.
KW  - Esclaves : Affranchissement : Maryland.
KW  - Esclaves : Affranchissement : Maryland : Baltimore.
KW  - Maryland : Histoire.
KW  - Maryland : Relations raciales.
KW  - HISTORY : State & Local.
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Enslaved persons : Emancipation
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Maryland : Baltimore
KW  - Vrijlating.
KW  - Slavernij.
KW  - History
ER  -