Slavery Made Economic Thinking Possible
An excerpt from “Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic”
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In the 1640s, as a child, Elizabeth Keye found herself misidentified on an estate in Virginia.
A white boy named John Keye called her “Black Besse.” Overhearing it, the overseer’s wife “checked him and said[,] Sirra you must call her Sister for shee is your Sister,” whereupon “the said John Keye ...
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