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Carry me back, the domestic slave trade in American life, Steven Deyle

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-380) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Carry me back

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Steven Deyle

"Drawing together the voices of professional slave traders and abolitionists, buyers and overseers, politicians and enslaved peoples, Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history. In so doing, this far-reaching study exposes the many complexities of southern slavery and antebellum American life."--Jacket

the domestic slave trade in American life

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 -- Appendix A. Total slave migration, 1820-1860, and percentage of migration attributable to the interregional slave trade -- Appendix B. Estimated number of local slave sales and total number of southern slave sales, 1820-1860