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The Price for his or her Pound of Flesh is the first reserve to explore the monetary value of enslaved people through every period of these lives - including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the final years, and fatality - in the first American local slave trade. Within the full "life pattern", historian Daina Ramey Berry shows the lengths to which enslavers would go to increase income and protect their purchases. Illuminating "ghost worth" or the costs placed on inactive enslaved people, Berry explores the little-known local cadaver trade and traces the illicit sales of inactive body to medical schools. Writing with level of sensitivity and depth, Berry resurrects the voices of the enslaved and provides a rare windows into enslaved peoples' experience and thoughts, exposing how enslaved people recalled and taken care of immediately being appraised, bartered, and sold throughout the course of their lives.
