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Carry me back [electronic resource] : the domestic slave trade in American life / Steven Deyle.

By: Deyle, Steven.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005General Notes: Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-380) and index.Description: 1 online resource (x, 398 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780198036395 (electronic bk.); 0198036396 (electronic bk.); 9780195160406 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader).Subject(s): Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Slave trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century | Southern States -- Race relations | Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 381/.44/0973 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
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 Negros": 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.
Summary: 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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Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-380) and index.

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 Negros": 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.

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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