In The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, Daina Berry examines the value of slaves from infancy to postmortem- spiritual and financial. The amount of thought that went into putting a value on the enslaved- based on their age, gender, physical attributes, behavior, and health- to do everything that thei ...more
An important, groundbreaking, illuminating work examining the commodification of and economic value placed upon enslaved people though all phases of their lives and their deaths. ...more