Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery, The Anglo-American Context 1830-1860

166 Pages·1979·4.24 MB·English

by  Marcus Cunliffe

C H A T T E L
SLAVERY
AND
, WAGE
SLAVERY
The Anglo-American Context
1830-1860
MARCUS CL'NLIFFF.
I
MERCER UNIVERSITY
LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES
No. 22
&
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS

CHATTEL SLAVERY
AND WAGE SLAVERY

C H A T T E L
SLAVERY
AND
WAGE
SLAVERY
The Anglo-American Context
1830-1860
MARCUS CUNLIFFE
MERCER UNIVERSITY
LAMAR MEMORIAL LECTURES
No. 22
&
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
ATHENS
$
Copyright © 1979 by the University of Georgia Press
Athens 30602
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Set in 11 on 15 point Mergenthaler Baskerville type
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Cunliffe, Marcus.
Chattel slavery and wage slavery.
(Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures; no.
22)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Slave labor—Southern States—History. 2. La­
bor and laboring classes—United States—History.
3. Slavery in the United States—Economic aspects—
Southern States—History. I. Title. II. Title: Wage
slavery. III. Series: Mercer University, Macon, Ga.
Lamar memorial lectures; v. 22.
HD4865.U6C86 331.1*17 78-27195
isbn 0-8203-0471-9
FOR KEITH ANI) SUSAN
AND THEIR
ANGLO-AMERICAN CONTEXT

Contents
Foreword .................................................. ix
Preface ...........................................................xiii
I Slavery, “Black” and “White” . . . 1
II
Anglo-American Discord
and the Definition of Slavery . . . 32
III Charles Edwards Lester:
a Case in Po in t..............................................69
No t e s ................................................................105
In d e x ................................................................125
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