{"product_id":"the-price-for-their-pound-of-flesh-the-value-of-the-enslaved-from-womb-to-grave-in-the-building-of-a-nation-paperback","title":"The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaina Ramey Berry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGroundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. \u003ci\u003eThe Price for Their Pound of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death--in the early American domestic slave trade. Covering the full \"life cycle,\" historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to maximize profits and protect their investments. Illuminating \"ghost values\" or the prices placed on dead enslaved people, Berry explores the little-known domestic cadaver trade and traces the illicit sales of dead bodies to medical schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is the culmination of more than ten years of Berry's exhaustive research on enslaved values, drawing on data unearthed from sources such as slave-trading records, insurance policies, cemetery records, and life insurance policies. Writing with sensitivity and depth, she resurrects the voices of the enslaved and provides a rare window into enslaved peoples' experiences and thoughts, revealing how enslaved people recalled and responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold throughout the course of their lives. Reaching out from these pages, they compel the reader to bear witness to their stories, to see them as human beings, not merely commodities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA profoundly humane look at an inhumane institution, \u003ci\u003eThe Price for Their Pound of Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e will have a major impact how we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, nineteenth-century medical education, and the value of life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Hamilton Book Award - from the University Coop (Austin, TX)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize (SHEAR)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award, from the Sons and Daughters of the US Middle Passage\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaina Ramey Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies, and the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Fellow in History, at the University of Texas at Austin. An award-winning historian, she is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She lives in Austin, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689505230911,"sku":"9780807067147","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cff70a95d0aa8b53da30e3399fd70516.webp?v=1764985736","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-price-for-their-pound-of-flesh-the-value-of-the-enslaved-from-womb-to-grave-in-the-building-of-a-nation-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}