Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market /

"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, W...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, Walter, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slave trade > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Esclaves > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
African Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
Slave trade
Slaveholders
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Social conditions
Sklavenhandel
Slavenhandel.
Markt.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
Escravidão (história) > Século 19 > Estados unidos.
História dos estados unidos.
Slaves > New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions.
Slave trade > History.
African Americans > New Orleans (La.)
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) > Relations raciales.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Louisiana > New Orleans
New Orleans, La.
Louisiana
USA
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of these chilling transactions into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Awards:ASA Award in American Studies 1999.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-273) and index.
ISBN:9780674039155
0674039157

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