Title Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market / Walter Johnson

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999 ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-book ACLS Humanities E-Book 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-273) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English All rights reserved digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL ASA Award in American Studies 1999 Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2022) Subject 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 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.) SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans New Orleans, La. Louisiana USA New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations. New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 99046696 ISBN 9780674039155 0674039157

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