Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia
by
John J. Zaborney
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In Slaves for Hire, John J. Zaborney overturns long-standing beliefs about slave labor in the antebellum South. Previously, scholars viewed slave hiring as an aberration -- a modified form of slavery, involving primarily urban male slaves, that worked to the laborer's advantage and weakened slavery's...