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accounting for slavery Accounting for Slavery Masters and ManageMent Caitlin Rosenthal Cambridge, Massachusetts London, england 2018 Copyright © 2018 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Rosenthal, Caitlin, author. Title: Accounting for slavery : masters and management / Caitlin Rosenthal. Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017058060 | ISBN 9780674972094 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Slavery— Economic aspects— United States— History— 18th century. | Slavery— Economic aspects— United States— History— 19th century. | Slavery— Economic aspects— West Indies, British— History— 18th century. | Slavery— Economic aspects— West Indies, British— History— 19th century. | Human capital— United States— History. | Human capital— West Indies, British— History. | Plantations— United States— Accounting— History. | Plantations— West Indies, British— Accounting— History. | Plantation owners— United States— History. | Plantation owners— West Indies, British— History. Classification: LCC HT905 .R67 2018 | DDC 331.11/734097309033— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2017058060 Cover Design: Tim Jones Cover Images: Background: Ledger book from the Eli J. Capell Family Papers Collection, courtesy of Louisiana State University. Inset: Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama, c 1860, by J. H. Lakin, courtesy of the Library of Congress. For my parents, Jim and Cindy CONTENTS List of Figures and T ables ix Preface xi Introduction 1 1. Hierarchies of Life and Death 9 2. Forms of L abor 49 3. Slavery’s Scientific Management 85 4. H uman Capital 121 5. Managing Freedom 157 Conclusion: Histories of Business and Slavery 187 Postscript: Forward to Scientific Management 199 Notes 207 Acknowl edgments 277 Index 283 FIGURES AND T ABLES Figures P.1. The View from the Planter’s Desk. xiii 1.1. Island Estate “Account of Negroes,” 1767. 10 1.2. Digging or Rather Hoeing the Cane Holes, Antigua, 1823. 15 1.3. Henry Dawkins’s Jamaican Properties, 1779. 18 1.4. Enslaved People and Livestock in Clarendon and Vere Parishes, 1779. 20 1.5. Orga nizational Chart for Parnassus Estate, 1779. 24 1.6. Drivers on Parnassus Plantation, 1779. 32 2.1. Work Log for Prospect Estate, 1787. 52 2.2. Monthly Report for Plantations Hope and Experiment, June 1812. 55 2.3. Monthly Report of Increase and Decrease on Friendship Plantation, August 1828. 59 2.4. Price Current, 1785. 72 2.5. West Indian Practices Suited for a Southern Plantation, 1835. 77 3.1. Advertisement for Thomas Affleck’s Plantation Rec ord and Account Books, 1854. 89 3.2. Output and Number of Plantations by Size of Slaveholding, 1860. 93 ix
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