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Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><p><i>soul By Soul</i> 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. <p>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 Fro

Who reads Soul by Soul : Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market?

Author

Walter Johnson; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674005396

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Fiction, Sociology

Rating

4.08 / 5 (1,383 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13