“Good Cooks and Washers”: Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky

“Good Cooks and Washers”: Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky

The relationships among slavery, market-oriented economic relations and the transformation of domestic labor in the antebellum US is examined in Bourbon County KY.

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of American History 1997-09, Vol.84 (2), p.436-460
1. Verfasser: Barton, Keith C.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Censuses
Counties
Economic conditions
Farm economics
Hiring
History
Homes
Housekeeping
Labor force
Slave ownership
Slavery
Slaves
United States history
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Zusammenfassung:The relationships among slavery, market-oriented economic relations and the transformation of domestic labor in the antebellum US is examined in Bourbon County KY.
ISSN:0021-8723
1938-2340
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.2307/2952566