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From bondage to contract: wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation
Stanley, Amy Dru.
Year: 1998.
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Legends of Contract Freedom
2 The Labor Question and the Sale of Self
3 Beggars Can't Be Choosers
4 The Testing Ground of Home Life
5 Wage Labor and Marriage Bonds
6 The Purchase of Women
Afterword
Index
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Title: From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley.
Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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2008
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Source Version: From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley
Stanley, Amy Dru
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00581
Subject Headings: • Labor -- United States -- History
• Contract labor -- United States -- History
• Marriage -- United States -- History
• Women -- United States -- Social conditions
• Slavery -- United States -- History
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