Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market / Walter Johnson.
2022
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Title
Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market / Walter Johnson.
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ISBN
9780674039155
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (320 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674039155 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
976.33500496
Summary
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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text file PDF
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