Soul by Soul Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Name: Soul by Soul Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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ISBN: 9780674005396

ISBN-10: 0674005392

ISBN-13: 9780674005396

Edition: 2000

Authors: Walter Johnson

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This work tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving into the heart of the domestic slave trade, the slave market. Taking the reader inside the New Orleans slave market, the author transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.



Introduction: A Person with a Price



The Chattel Principle



Between the Prices



Making a World Out of Slaves



Turning People into Products



Reading Bodies and Marking Race



Acts of Sale



Life in the Shadow of the Slave Market


Epilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index