Preface ix Introduction xiii Timeline of Events xix Glossary xxiii 1. ECONOMIC LIFE 1 The Planters’ Economy 3 The Agricultural Cycle 5 The Chesapeake and Tobacco 8 Cotton 11 Sugar 15 Rice 18 Slave Hiring 20 Reproduction and the “Fancy Trade” 24 Domestic Work 27 Independent Production 29 Document: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853) 33 CONTENTS
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