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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Amy Dru Stanley. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 277. Cloth $54.95, paper $17.95.

The focus of this excellent and provocative study are the individuals and groups that found in the ideas of contract "common principles for expressing their differing visions of freedom and slavery": Yankee hirelings, statesmen, feminists, social scientific thinkers, and former slaves (p. x). As the debate over slavery and emancipation rooted contract principles in everyday thought and speech, it raised several questions that pointed out the ambiguities and contradictions of contract freedom. Were hirelings slaves because their labor was for sale? Were wives slaves because, by law, both their persons and labor belonged to their husbands? Must husbands lose their rights as masters when wives sold their labor as a market commodity? . . .

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