Description |
xii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: the problem of speculation -- The strands of forced migration -- Slave resistance, coffles, and the debates over slavery in the Nation's Capital -- The interstate slave trade and the Southern imagination : the Upper South -- The interstate slave trade and the southern imagination : the Lower South -- Profits and piety -- The trade transformed -- Speculation triumphant -- Epilogue : a troubled legacy. |
Subject |
Slave trade -- United States.
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Slave trade. |
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United States. |
ISBN |
0807128848 cloth alkaline paper |
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0807129224 paperback alkaline paper |
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