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Felonious Transactions: Legal Culture and Business Practices of Slave Economies in South Carolina, 1787–1860

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2017

JUSTENE HILL EDWARDS
JUSTENE HILL EDWARDS*
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Justene Hill Edwards is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2015. E-mail: justenehill@virginia.edu
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 772 - 783
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Webber, Mabel L. “Presentment of the Grand Jury, March 1733/34.” South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 25, no. 4 (October 1924), 193–195.Google Scholar
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Baptist, Edward. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.Google Scholar
Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Vintage Books, 2014.Google Scholar
Beckert, Sven, and Rockman, Seth, eds. Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Berlin, Ira, and Morgan, Philip D., eds. Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.Google Scholar
Berlin, Ira, and Morgan, Philip D., eds. The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas. London: Frank Cass, 1991.Google Scholar
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.Google Scholar
Farrand, Max. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911.Google Scholar
Fehrenbacher, Don E., and McAfee, Ward M.. The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Fogel, Robert, and Engerman, Stanley. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.Google Scholar
Ford, Lacy K. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.Google Scholar
Genovese, Eugene D. The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy & Society of the Slave South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.Google Scholar
Hadden, Sally. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Hilliard, Kathleen. Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power’s Purchase in the Old South Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Hudson, Larry E. To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Jackson, John Andrew. Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Johnson, Walter. The River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Laurens, Henry, Hamer, Philip M., Rogers, George C., Chesnutt, David R., and Lyles, Maude E.. The Papers of Henry Laurens. Columbia: Published for the South Carolina Historical Society by the University of South Carolina Press, 1968.Google Scholar
Martin, Jonathan. Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the Antebellum South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
McDonald, Roderick A. The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Penningroth, Dylan C. The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Waldstreitcher, David. Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.Google Scholar
Wood, Betty. Women’s Work, Men’s Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Young, Jeffrey Robert. Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Zaborney, John J. Slaves for Hire: Renting Enslaved Laborers in Antebellum Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Egerton, Douglas. “Markets Without a Market Revolution: Southern Planters and Capitalism.” Journal of the Early Republic 16, no. 2 (Summer, 1996), 207–221.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ford, Lacy K. “Self-Sufficiency, Cotton, and Economic Development in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860.” Journal of Economic History 45, no. 2 (June 1985), 261–267.Google Scholar
Genovese, Eugene D., and Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. “The Slave Economies in Political Perspective.” Journal of American History 66, no. 1 (June 1979): 7–23.Google Scholar
McBride, B. “Directions for Cultivating the Various Crops Grown at Hickory Hill.” Southern Agriculturist 3 (May 1830): 237–240.Google Scholar
Merrill, Michael. “Putting ‘Capitalism’ in Its Place: A Review of Recent Literature.” William and Mary Quarterly 52, no. 2 (April 1995), 315–326.Google Scholar
Lockley, Timothy J. “Trading Encounters between Non-Elite Whites and African Americans in Savannah, 1790–1860.” Journal of Southern History 66, no. 1 (February 2000): 25–48.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peterson, David E. “Slavery, Slaves, and Cash in a Georgia Village, 1825–1865.” Journal of Southern History 75, no. 4 (November 2009), 879–930.Google Scholar
Rosenthal, Caitlin, C. “From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880.” Enterprise & Society 14, no. 4: 732–748.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schweninger, Loren. “Slave Independence and Enterprise in South Carolina, 1782–1865.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 93 (April 1992): 101–125.Google Scholar
Webber, Mabel L. “Presentment of the Grand Jury, March 1733/34.” South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 25, no. 4 (October 1924), 193–195.Google Scholar
The South Carolina Gazette .Google Scholar
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC.Google Scholar