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| | Barbara Ryan / Love, Wages, Slavery |
 | | In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a good servant and how servants felt about serving non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, free and unfree labor, status, race, domesticity, and family life. |
 | | Her wide-ranging probe also culls commentary from advice literature, letters and diaries, pro- and anti-slavery propaganda, sentimental fiction, and memoirs of communitarian reform to reveal the fundamental uncertainty about what it meant for some servants to be "free" while others remained fettered to their posts. |
 | | Barbara Ryan teaches in the Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. |
| www.press.uillinois.edu /s06/ryan.html (256 words) |
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