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After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

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SIX The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital DAINA RAMEY BERRY Historian Daina Ramey Berry takes on Capital in the Twenty-First Century's characterization of slaves and slavery as a just another part of the capital stock, one that ...
"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and ...

"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and ...

Daina Ramey Berry

Examining how labor and economy shaped family life for both women and men among the enslaved
Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia

Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia

Daina Ramey Berry

This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives of enslaved women in the United States, from colonial times to emancipation following the Civil War.
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah:

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah:

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List of Sidebars / vii Foreword /ix Lisa Grove Preface /xi Tania Sammons Acknowledgments /xiii Introduction / xv Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry Chapter 1 The Transatlantic Slave Trade Comes to Georgia / 1 James A. McMillin  ...
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the ...

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the ...

Daina Ramey Berry

Quoted in John Seh David, The American Colonization Society and the Founding of the First African Republic (Bloomington, IN: iuniverse, 2014), 48. Pamela Bridgewater,"Un/ResDis Covering Slave Breeding in Thirteenth Amendment ...
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic ...

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic ...

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Human Capital and Enslaved Mortality Daina Ramey Berry In December 1800, Jacob, “a valuable Waterman” and “an honest inoffensive negro,” committed suicide by “stab[bing] himself.” Because he was considered valuable, his enslaver, ...
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the ...

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the ...

Daina Ramey Berry

The Value of Life and Death -- Preconception, Women, and Future Increase -- Infancy and Childhood -- Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Soul Values -- Mid-Life and Older Adulthood -- Elderly and Superannuated -- Postmortem, Death, and Ghost ...
Southern Cultures: Southern Waters Issue: Volume 20: Number ...

Southern Cultures: Southern Waters Issue: Volume 20: Number ...

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... Food Writing Edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Clark paper, $29.95 Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry paper, $34.95 978-0-8203-4410-2 Edited by Francis Lam General Editor John T. Edge paper, $24.95 978-0-8203- 4666-3 ...
Buildings of Historic and Architectural Signifcance

Buildings of Historic and Architectural Signifcance

Kingston, Ont. Committee of Architectural Review

... 6-10 Princess Street Rochleau House Gerald Finley Wallace Berry George Lilley Wallace Berry Wallace Berry George Lilley Wallace Berry Wallace Berry Wallace Berry Wallace Berry Wallace Berry Wallace Berry George Lilley George Lilley ...
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Marisa J. Fuentes

... Historical Review 106 (December 2001): 1619–50; edward Baptist and stephanie m. H. camp, eds., New Studies in American Slavery (athens: university of Georgia press, 2006); Beckles, Centering Woman and Natural Rebels; Daina Berry, ...
Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors

Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors

Randy Roach

7 Mark Berry was a serious frustration for Hoffman. With Strength magazine folding along with the Milo Barbell Company, Hoffman tried to get Berry to come and work for him. Berry declined and to fuel the flames even further, Berry was again ...
Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery ...

Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery ...

Daina Berry

"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry and lowcountry Georgia during the nineteenth century.
Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry

Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry

David Fleming

Thinking that his Mother did not notice, Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry does something his Mother asked him not to, and spends the whole day feeling bad about it. How will Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry explain what he has done?
The Mayflower Descendant,: Volume 34 1937

The Mayflower Descendant,: Volume 34 1937

Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants Staff

... augt 27 : 1788 Mary Bery Daughter of Jonathan & Hannah Berry born July 4th 1769 Pedea Berry Daughter to Jonathan & Hannah Berry born Sept 2 : 1771 David Berry Son to the Said Jonathan & Hannah born augt 15 : 1773 Jonathan Berry ...
Conversations with Wendell Berry

Conversations with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

So the opportunities for working with my father weren't all that available, but there were other people I worked for and with from the time I was very young. Beattie: Did you think, when you were a child, that 61 Wendell Berry L Elisabeth Beattie.
Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records

Ellen T. Berry

Finding Them in Quaker Records Ellen T. Berry, David A. Berry. would like to thank each of them, but particularly our thanks go to the staffs of the libraries at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; at the Quaker Collection, ...
Secondhand Charm

Secondhand Charm

Julie Berry

. . Berry's debut novel garnered glowing reviews and strong sales-and now she's done it again with a beautifully woven tale to keep all readers, young and old, absolutely charmed.
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized.
Islam in the African-American Experience

Islam in the African-American Experience

Richard Brent Turner

Faith Berry, "The 'King' of the Hour at the March on Washington," The Miami Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983. Faith Berry to Minister Louis Farrakhan, October 31, 1983; Minister Louis Farrakhan to Faith Berry, November 3, 1983. 8.
Mary Berry's Absolute Favourites

Mary Berry's Absolute Favourites

Mary Berry

These are dishes that Mary never tires of, that are not too difficult to make, that don't have too many ingredients, and that'll have all your family asking for second helpings!
New Collected Poems

New Collected Poems

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry. NEW COLLECTED POEMS Wendell Berry NEW COLLECTED POEMS åêåêåêåêåêåêåêåêå Wendell Berry COUNTERPOINT berkeley.
Our Only World: Ten Essays

Our Only World: Ten Essays

Wendell Berry

And we citizens are left with a shell of what was once proudly described as The American Dream. In this new collection of eleven essays, Berry confronts head-on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action.
Wendell Berry: Life and Work

Wendell Berry: Life and Work

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A portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers, this book combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary to illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with ...
Adele and Co.

Adele and Co.

Dornford Yates

The first full-length novel featuring Yates' finest comic creation, Bertram 'Berry' Pleydell. Written in response to public demand for Berry stories, it is regarded as one of Yates' best books.
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

Wendell Berry

With the publication of this new complete edition, it is becoming increasingly clear that The Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry’s entire work.
Katy Perry: California Gurl

Katy Perry: California Gurl

Jo Berry

Jo Berry's insightful and honest biography reveals the incredible story of the life and loves of the artist and performer Katy Perry.
Berry and Co.

Berry and Co.

Dornford Yates

This collection of short stories featuring 'Berry' Pleydell and his chaotic entourage established Dornford Yates' reputation as one of the best comic writers in a generation, and made him hugely popular.
The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire

John Irving

' So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry.

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