Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by Walter Johnson
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- ISBN 10
- 0674005392
- ISBN 13
- 9780674005396
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Paperback / softback. New. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, 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.
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On Nov 14 2014, a reader said:
Walter Johnson's book is a powerful examination of the domestic slave market in the antebellum South. Using a variety of sources, he describes the goals and practices of the three parties involved in the transaction: the slave traders, the slave buyers, and the slaves themselves. In the process, he demonstrates how purchasing a slave was an expression of status as well as an acquisition of labor, as slaveowners used slaves as a way of representing themselves within Southern society and were judged by their ability to assess slaves and exploit them properly. By highlighting the complex nuances of the relationships within the slave trade, Johnson has written a book that is essential reading for anyone wishing to learn about slavery or the antebellum South.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
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- Title
- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- Author
- Walter Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0674005392
- ISBN 13
- 9780674005396
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- March 2, 2001
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