Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South

by Jonathan D. Martin

Book Overview

Divided Mastery explores a curiously neglected aspect of the history of American slavery: the rental of slaves. Though few slaves escaped being rented out at some point in their lives, this is the first book to describe the practice, and its effects on both slaves and the peculiar institution.

Martin reveals how the unique triangularity of slave hiring created slaves with two masters, thus transforming the customary polarity of master-slave...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067401149X
• ISBN13: 9780674011496
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"