Simultaneously, however, the law of commercial transactions made of the slave’s body an un-situated commodity, implicitly priced in the Liverpool trading market that set a going price of cotton and other slave-produced commodities and intensified the demand on the slave’s body for rapid production of commodities.The struggle of the law to reconcile the claimed moral underpinnings of slavery with the concept of property, within a partly feudal society, existed alongside the full… [read post]