Carry Me Back : The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (411 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781602567948Subject(s): Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Southern States -- Race relations | United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century | United States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Carry Me Back : The Domestic Slave Trade in American LifeDDC classification: 381/.44/0973 LOC classification: E449 -- .D525 2005ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Irony of Liberty: Origins of the Domestic Slave Trade -- 2 A Most Important Form of Commerce: The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom -- 3 A Most Fateful Form of Commerce: The Fall of the Cotton Kingdom -- 4 "CASH FOR NEGROES": Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South -- 5 A Regular Part of Everyday Life: The Buying and Selling of Human Property -- 6 Outside Looking In: The Domestic Slave Trade and the Abolitionist Attack on Slavery -- 7 Inside Looking Out: The Slave Trade's Effect upon the White South -- 8 "The Nastiness of Life": African-American Resistance to the Domestic Slave Trade -- Epilogue -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the business world of those markets.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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