For some, this meant that no monetary value could allow them to comply with slavery. Others recombined enslavement,negotiated levels of commodification to survive their experience. Still, others were socially day. While the value of the soul could not be located on, while the value of the soul could not be located on a spectrum, this book assesses the living souls value, seeking to uncover what the slave made of the situation. They considered conceptions of self, spaces that denied it. By centering their own thoughts and feelings as opposed to the flesh and blood valuesascribed to their bodies, i demand recognition of the selfactualized value of their souls. The second form of valuation puts aside external x assessments rooted in appraisals for projected values that valued traders contributed to enslaved people based on their potential work output. The third value, also an external assessment represents the market value and scale price for the human flesh negotiated in competitive mark