5. The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America

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Amy Dru Stanley University of Chicago For NYU workshop Do not cite or distribute or reproduce without the author’s express written permission. This essay is part of a book, From Slave Emancipation to the Commerce Power: An American History of Human Rights (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). A version is also included in Christine Desan and Sven Beckert, eds., American Capitalism: New Histories (Columbia University Press, 2018). ________________________________________