The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Cover
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Daina Ramey Berry

Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market.

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Louise recommended Alexis Harris's "Pound of Flesh" as a book that illuminated the mechanisms of inequality.

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Marissa Baradaran's book, Color of Money, Alexis Harris's book, Pound of Flesh, and Heather McGee's The Sum of Us.

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Louise recommended Alexis Harris's "Pound of Flesh" as a book that illuminated the mechanisms of inequality.

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Marissa Baradaran's book, Color of Money, Alexis Harris's book, Pound of Flesh, and Heather McGee's The Sum of Us.

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