Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American LifeOxford University Press, 14.04.2005 - 416 Seiten Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had always been present, following the American Revolution this was replaced by a far more vibrant internal trade. Most importantly, an interregional commerce in slaves developed that turned human property into one of the most valuable forms of investment in the country, second only to land. In fact, this form of property became so valuable that when threatened with its ultimate extinction in 1860, southern slave owners believed they had little alternative but to leave the Union. Therefore, while the interregional trade produced great wealth for many people, and the nation, it also helped to tear the country apart. The domestic slave trade likewise played a fundamental role in antebellum American society. Led by professional traders, who greatly resembled northern entrepreneurs, this traffic was a central component in the market revolution of the early nineteenth century. In addition, the development of an extensive local trade meant that the domestic trade, in all its configurations, was a prominent feature in southern life. Yet, this indispensable part of the slave system also raised many troubling questions. For those outside the South, it affected their impression of both the region and the new nation. For slaveholders, it proved to be the most difficult part of their institution to defend. And for those who found themselves commodities in this trade, it was something that needed to be resisted at all costs. Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history, exposing the many complexities of southern slavery and antebellum American life. |
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... Slave Trade 2 A Most Important Form of Commerce : The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 3 A Most Fateful Form of Commerce ... African - American Resistance to the Domestic Slave Trade 245 Epilogue 276 Appendix A : Total Slave Migration , 1820 ...
... Slave Trade 2 A Most Important Form of Commerce : The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 3 A Most Fateful Form of Commerce ... African - American Resistance to the Domestic Slave Trade 245 Epilogue 276 Appendix A : Total Slave Migration , 1820 ...
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... slave trade is also the story of the early United States , and it is quite difficult to understand the growth of the ... African slave trade in . Others , like the invention of the cotton gin in the s , simply coincided ...
... slave trade is also the story of the early United States , and it is quite difficult to understand the growth of the ... African slave trade in . Others , like the invention of the cotton gin in the s , simply coincided ...
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The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. otherwise fine system ... African Americans in the South . For most Ameri- can slaves , little could ... trade did make the system run less smoothly than slave owners would have liked ...
The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. otherwise fine system ... African Americans in the South . For most Ameri- can slaves , little could ... trade did make the system run less smoothly than slave owners would have liked ...
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The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. to reunite the ... slaves , and complete absence of any reference to the buying and selling of slaves ... African - American culture.20 While the work of Stampp and Elkins was a much ...
The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. to reunite the ... slaves , and complete absence of any reference to the buying and selling of slaves ... African - American culture.20 While the work of Stampp and Elkins was a much ...
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The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. about the psychological and social impact that the ... African - American history , but by their very nature , they have neglected aspects of the institution that threatened the slave ...
The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life Steven Deyle. about the psychological and social impact that the ... African - American history , but by their very nature , they have neglected aspects of the institution that threatened the slave ...
Inhalt
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The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom | 40 |
The Fall of the Cotton Kingdom | 63 |
Slave Traders and the Market Revolution in the South | 94 |
The Buying and Selling of Human Property | 142 |
The Domestic Slave Trade and the Abolitionist Attack on Slavery | 174 |
The Slave Trades Effect upon the White South | 206 |
AfricanAmerican Resistance to the Domestic Slave Trade | 245 |
Epilogue | 276 |
Total Slave Migration 18201860 and Percentage of Migration Attributable to the Interregional Slave Trade | 283 |
Estimated Number of Local Slave Sales and Total Number of Southern Slave Sales 18201860 | 291 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 349 |
Index | 381 |
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abolitionists advertisements African slave trade African trade Alabama American Anti-Slavery Society American Slave antebellum antislavery argued Armfield Ballard Papers Baltimore bought buyers Calderhead chap Charleston Charleston Mercury coffle Congress cotton County dealers DeBow's Review Deep South domestic slave trade domestic trade early economic enslaved former slave Gazette Georgia Gutman History human property ibid important individuals institution interregional trade interstate slave trade interstate trade Isaac Franklin John John Armfield Journal July Kentucky letter Louisiana Lower South majority Maryland Memphis Mississippi Missouri Natchez negroes newspapers North northern noted number of slaves Orleans Crescent Orleans Delta Orleans Picayune paternalistic percent plantation planters price of slaves purchase quoted Republican role Savannah slave owners slave sales slave-exporting slaveholders slavery slaves sold society South Carolina Speculators and Slaves Tadman Tennessee traffic Upper South Virginia white southerners William woman women Z. B. Oakes
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