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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

bySeth Rockman

Seth Rockman follows the ordinary goods that bound northern manufacturing to southern slavery: shoes, clothing, tools, textiles, and whips made for plantation use. These objects carried assumptions about race, labor, durability, and profit from workshops and factories into enslaved people's daily lives. By tracing design, production, sale, and use, the book makes the national reach of the slave economy tangible. It also shows how manufacturers, merchants, plantation owners, and workers participated in a commercial system whose violence was embedded in material things.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

2024-11-29

Format

Hardcover

Pages

496

ISBN

9780226723457