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Author Deyle, Steven.

Title Carry me back : the domestic slave trade in American life / Steven Deyle.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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 Moore Stacks  E449 .D525 2005    Available  ---
Description x, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions.
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Economic conditions.
Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN 0195160401 alkaline paper
9780195160406 alkaline paper