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Book Soul by Soul

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Johnson
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2001-03-02
  • ISBN : 0674264819
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Soul by Soul written by Walter Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize Winner of the Avery O. Craven Award Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, 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 this chilling trade 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. Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders’ letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market’s slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by “feeding them up,” dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage. Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution” in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery.

Book All for Liberty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Strickland
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-16
  • ISBN : 1108681786
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book All for Liberty written by Jeff Strickland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told.

Book The African American Experience in Louisiana  From Africa to the Civil War

Download or read book The African American Experience in Louisiana From Africa to the Civil War written by Charles Vincent and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Bulletin

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  • Author : Cornell University. Libraries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Library Bulletin written by Cornell University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Library Bulletin of Cornell University

Download or read book The Library Bulletin of Cornell University written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Bulletin of Cornell University

Download or read book Library Bulletin of Cornell University written by Cornell University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Benjamin Levy  New Orleans Printer and Publisher

Download or read book Benjamin Levy New Orleans Printer and Publisher written by Bertram Wallace Korn and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Free Blacks in America  1800 1860

Download or read book Free Blacks in America 1800 1860 written by John H. Bracey and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race and Law Before Emancipation

Download or read book Race and Law Before Emancipation written by Paul Finkelman and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles reprinted from various sources.

Book New Orleans and Urban Louisiana  Settlement to 1860

Download or read book New Orleans and Urban Louisiana Settlement to 1860 written by Samuel Claude Shepherd and published by Louisiana Purchase Bicentennia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the period between the early 1770s and the late 1850s with topics such as geography, politics, economics, architecture, and more.

Book The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana  1862 77

Download or read book The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana 1862 77 written by Roger A. Fischer and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries

Download or read book Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries written by New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Communities and Urban Development in America  1720 1990  Antebellum America

Download or read book Black Communities and Urban Development in America 1720 1990 Antebellum America written by Kenneth L. Kusmer and published by Articles-Garlan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: