The Price for Their Pound of Flesh by Daina Ramey Berry | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh Author: Daina Ramey Berry Narrator: Robin Eller Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins Language: English Release date: 06-06-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: History, American Summary: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives - including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death - in the early American domestic slave trade. Covering the full "life cycle", historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to maximize profits and protect their investments. Illuminating "ghost values" or the prices placed on dead enslaved people, Berry explores the little-known domestic cadaver trade and traces the illicit sales of dead bodies to medical schools. Writing with sensitivity and depth, Berry resurrects the voices of the enslaved and provides a rare window into enslaved peoples' experiences and thoughts, revealing how enslaved people recalled and responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold throughout the course of their lives. Contact: [email protected]