Walter Johnson, in his publication Soul by Soul, renders vivid imagery of the Antebellum slave market. While detailing these atrocities, he proposes that “every person had a price.” This proclamation and generalization precisely illustrates the use of slaves as a form of legally commodified capital; however, it simultaneous and unilaterally undermines the gradual abolishment of slavery in northern colonies, the population of “free” blacks in both the North and South, and the emotional, and often exploitive, relationship that numerous slave owners had with their slave mistresses
Succeeding the abolishment of the African International Slave Trade in the United States, the commonality of domestic slave trade surged. This, coupled with the unprecedented growth of economies of scale, perpetuated by slavery and the cultivation of cotton, generated an extreme demand for unpaid laborers; this demand also augmented the price of slaves. Digressing to Johnson 's claim, the methodology, facilitation, and commonality in appraising these commodified humans, is the pedagogy of his ascertain, and is not holistically misguided. Appraisal of slaves is multilaterally influenced by the vernacular of marketing. Various marketing …show more content…
Slavery was gradually abolished in the North, which created free tax paying black persons, not black citizens. In the city of New York, two black men have documentation of their “freedom.” It declares that they are free, tax paying, renters that inhabit the city. (Slaughter 38; 18) (Slaughter 38; 18A). This documentation was probably used as identification to prevent their unwarranted capture and deportation to the south. As the mass of fugitive slave laws grows, this documentation becomes more crucial. Some of these individuals would be sold into slave, but those who were not, did not have a price. They could not be
Succeeding the abolishment of the African International Slave Trade in the United States, the commonality of domestic slave trade surged. This, coupled with the unprecedented growth of economies of scale, perpetuated by slavery and the cultivation of cotton, generated an extreme demand for unpaid laborers; this demand also augmented the price of slaves. Digressing to Johnson 's claim, the methodology, facilitation, and commonality in appraising these commodified humans, is the pedagogy of his ascertain, and is not holistically misguided. Appraisal of slaves is multilaterally influenced by the vernacular of marketing. Various marketing …show more content…
Slavery was gradually abolished in the North, which created free tax paying black persons, not black citizens. In the city of New York, two black men have documentation of their “freedom.” It declares that they are free, tax paying, renters that inhabit the city. (Slaughter 38; 18) (Slaughter 38; 18A). This documentation was probably used as identification to prevent their unwarranted capture and deportation to the south. As the mass of fugitive slave laws grows, this documentation becomes more crucial. Some of these individuals would be sold into slave, but those who were not, did not have a price. They could not be