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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:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Chattel principle
  • ch. 2. Between the prices
  • ch. 3. Making a world out of slaves
  • ch. 4. Turning people into products
  • ch. 5. Reading bodies and marking race
  • ch. 6. Acts of sale
  • ch. 7. Life in the shadow of the slave market.