What did it mean to be a person and to also be a commodity in early America?
Daina Ramey Berry), author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation), takes us behind the scenes of her research so we can explore how early Americans valued and commodified enslaved men, women, and children.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/176)
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