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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-380) and index.
Contents
The irony of liberty: origins of the domestic slave trade -- A most important form of commerce: the rise of the cotton kingdom -- A most fateful form of commerce: the fall of the cotton kingdom -- "CASH FOR NEGROES": slave traders and the market revolution in the south -- A regular part of everyday life: the buying and selling of human property -- Outside looking in: the domestic slave trade and the abolitionist attack on slavery -- Inside looking out: the slave trade's effect upon the white south -- "The nastiness of life": African-American resistance to the domestic slave trade.
Summary
A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the business world of those markets.
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