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The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded to free labour. The author argues that the creation of term slavery and the increase in manumission in Baltimore during the post-revolutionary era should be attributed to economic self-interest rather than humanitarian impulses founded in republican ideology or religion. Using the leverage of flight, the author shows how skilled slaves wielded considerable power in negotiating the terms of their labour. This meticulous study sheds new light on free and unfree labour during the early national period.
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Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland
T. Stephen Whitman
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Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whitman, T. Stephen, 1950 The Price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland / T. Stephen Whitman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8131-2004-7 (acid-free paper) 1. SlaveryMaryland. 2. SlaveryMarylandBaltimore. 3. SlavesEmancipationMaryland. 4. SlavesEmancipation MarylandBaltimore. 5. MarylandHistory. 6. MarylandRace relations. 7. Baltimore (Md.)History. 8. Baltimore (Md.)Race relations. I. Title. E445.M3W45 1997 975.2'00496dc20 96-27386
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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To Dorothy J. and Aaron T. Whitman
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Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1 Slavery in Early National Baltimore and Rural Maryland
8
2 Industrial Slavery in Baltimore
33
3 The Black Drive for Autonomy and Masters' Responses
61
4 Manumission and the Transformation of Slavery
93
5 Free Black Family Strategies for Gaining Freedom
119
6 Political-Economic Thought and Free Blacks
140
Conclusions
158
Appendix A: Baltimore Slaveholders, 17901820
167
Appendix B: Occupational Categories
170
Appendix C: Sale Prices of Term Slaves and Slaves for Life
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