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Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865

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this is the ultimate scholarly work on slave badges, a unique product of our slaveholding past. The book is thorough and easy to read. In it, you will find everything you could possibly want to know about badges and their uses.

I recommend it for Civil War buffs who want to add some marginalia to their discussions and to historical writers who want to add detail to their work. Anyone visiting historic Charleston will also find the information about fraudulent badges essential to their souvenir shopping. Plus, you may decide to bring your metal detector into the city from the beach, because that's how these valuable artifacts are usually found.

The perfect combination of history, statistics, analysis and photographic material. This is the only resource you will need to understand the badge system and to learn to distinguish the surviving relics from modern forgeries. Highly recommended.

This book delves into the true history of slave badges. The authors research uncovers and reveals the numbers of slave badges made in each year, who made the badges, the types of badges, what each year of badge looked like as to what an authentic badge should have on it for each year, what the badges were made from, why the badges were made and used, how they were used, etc. There are many color plates showing the badges, and designs. Some of the photos of badges are a bit small, but other than that, I had no complaints about the book...it is the seminal work on slave badges of Charleston.