{"product_id":"new-directions-in-slavery-studies-commodification-community-and-comparison-9780807161159","title":"New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline's major themes -- commodification, community, and comparison -- and indicating paths for future inquiry.\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions in Slavery Studies addresses the various ways in which the institution of slavery reduced human beings to a form of property. From the coastwise domestic slave trade in international context to the practice of slave mortgaging to the issuing of insurance policies on slaves, several essays reveal how southern whites treated slaves as a form of capital to be transferred or protected. An additional piece in this section contemplates the historian's role in translating the fraught history of slavery into film.\u003cbr\u003eOther essays examine the idea of the \"slave community,\" an increasingly embattled concept born of revisionist scholarship in the 1970s. This section's contributors examine the process of community formation for black foreigners, the crucial role of violence in the negotiation of slaves' sense of community, and the effect of the Civil War on slave society. A final essay asks readers to reassess the long-standing revisionist emphasis on slave agency and the ideological burdens it carries with it.\u003cbr\u003eEssays in the final section discuss scholarship on comparative slavery, contrasting American slavery with similar, less restrictive practices in Brazil and North Africa. One essay negotiates a complicated tripartite comparison of secession in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba, while another uncovers subtle differences in slavery in separate regions of the American South, demonstrating that comparative slavery studies need not be transnational.\u003cbr\u003eNew Directions in Slavery Studies provides relevant and distinct examinations of the lives and histories of enslaved people in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Forret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 5.89w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807161159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeff Forret is professor of history at Lamar University and the author of Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside and Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South.\u003cbr\u003eChristine E. Sears is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and the author of American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776--1820.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40671732138099,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":79.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d7349ab0-db16-430c-a505-869da579d443.jpg?v=1674055483","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/new-directions-in-slavery-studies-commodification-community-and-comparison-9780807161159","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}