Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)


Listen Later

Justene Hill Edwards is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (Columbia University Press, 2021). Unfree Markets focuses in on an area of slavery’s history that has seldom been explore: the economic lives of enslaved people, and its meaning for them, enslavers, non-enslavers, and the institution of slavery itself. Hill Edwards explores how the complicated history of the slaves’ economy from the colonial period to the Civil War, showing the relationship between it and the development of capitalism in the nation. Through a history of enterprise, cultivation, markets, and people, Hill Edwards shows just how much the tenuous the connection between economic activity and freedom for the enslaved became throughout this time period, and what that meant for everyone involved.

Justene Hill Edwards is an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia.

Derek Litvak is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland—College Park.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastBy New Books Network

  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3
  • 3

3

2 ratings


More shows like Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast

View all
The Joe Rogan Experience by Joe Rogan

The Joe Rogan Experience

224,028 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,115 Listeners

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel by Esther Perel Global Media

Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

14,796 Listeners

Why Theory by Why Theory

Why Theory

553 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,285 Listeners

Ordinary Unhappiness by Patrick & Abby

Ordinary Unhappiness

201 Listeners