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Author Gudmestad, Robert H., 1964-

Title A troublesome commerce : the transformation of the interstate slave trade / Robert H. Gudmestad.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E442 .G83 2003    Available  ---
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.
Slave trade.
United States.
ISBN 0807128848 cloth alkaline paper
0807129224 paperback alkaline paper