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United States, 6 , 213 ;

abolition of slavery in, 222 n13;

hiring-out system of, 243 n10;

manumission in, 243 n6, 244 nn12, 13 ;

movement of slaves to countryside in, 232 n75;

resistance strategies of slave women in, 138 -39;

slave families of, 243 , 204 , 242 -43n4;

urban black population of, 224 n1;

wage payments to slaves in, 64