The Slaves' economy : independent production by slaves in the Americas / edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan.

Contributor Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018.

Imprint:London, England ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, c1991.

Description213 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:THE CARIBBEAN: An economic life of their own: slaves as commodity producers and distributors in Barbados / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Provision ground and plantation labour in four Windward Islands: competition for resources during slavery / Woodville K. Marshall -- Une petite guinée: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848 / Dale Tomich -- Slave workers, subsistence and labour bargaining: Amity Hall, Jamaica, 1805-1832 / Mary Turner -- Subsistence on the plantation periphery: crops, cooking and labour among 18th-century Suriname Maroons / Richard Price -- MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA: As "a kind of freeman"?: slaves' market-related activities in the South Carolina upcountry, 1800-1860 / John Campbell -- The internal economy of slavery in rural Piedmont Virginia / John T. Schlotterbeck -- Independent economic production by slaves on antebellum Louisiana sugar plantations / Roderick A. McDonald.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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