![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Calvin Schermerhorn foregrounds the argument that slavery was embedded in capitalism, and vice versa, which has been at the core of recent ground-breaking books by Daina Ramey Berry ( The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation ), Edward Baptist ( The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism ), Sven Beckert ( Empire of Cotton: A Global History ), and other historians, including Schermerhorn himself in The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 (2015). Unrequited Toil is a synthetic history of American slavery from the Revolution through Reconstruction. Jeffers (California State University-Dominguez Hills) Published on H-Early-America (November, 2019)Ĭommissioned by Joshua J. Reviewed by Margot Minardi (Reed College) ![]() Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery.Ĭambridge Essential Histories Series. ![]()
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