Slave Trading in the Old South

Slave Trading in the Old South
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781643364278
ISBN-13 : 1643364278
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Slave Trading in the Old South by : Frederic Bancroft

Overwhelming evidence against the historical view of slavery as a benevolent "peculiar institution" Posting what he called "a most deadly array of facts," Frederic Bancroft exploded deeply entrenched myths about antebellum slavery when Slave Trading in the Old South was first published in 1931. As fresh and informative today as it was then, the classic study returns to print, giving a new generation of historians, students, and history enthusiasts access to Bancroft's pioneering examination of the domestic slave trade. Drawing largely on research that could not be duplicated today—correspondence with individuals involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves—Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the enterprise, including the "breeding" and "rearing" of slaves for future sale to western states and territories, the separation of slave families, and the profitability of the practice. By showing that the slave trade so thoroughly dominated the South, Bancroft demonstrated antebellum slavery to be an essentially commercial, exploitative, and cruel industry rather than, as many historians have claimed, a benevolent "peculiar institution" in which the selling of slaves was a relatively rare exchange between neighbors. He also discredited the notion that slave traders were social outcasts, finding instead that they came from even the highest ranks of Southern society. Michael Tadman's new introduction offers a comprehensive, thoughtful analysis of the evolving historical literature on the subject, reminding readers of the devastating effects the slave trade had both on Southern society as a whole and on its principal victims.

Slave Trading in the Old South

Slave Trading in the Old South
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Publisher : Burns & Oates
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015000625577
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Slave Trading in the Old South by : Frederic Bancroft

Through correspondence with people involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves, Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the American slave trade, including the breeding of slaves for future sale, the separation of slave families, the profitability of the trade, and the integration of slave traders into the highest ranks of southern society.

Africans in the Old South

Africans in the Old South
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780674495166
ISBN-13 : 0674495160
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Africans in the Old South by : Randy J. Sparks

The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed critical to understanding the trade in all its breadth and variety. Randy J. Sparks examines the experiences of a range of West Africans who lived in the American South between 1740 and 1860. Their stories highlight the diversity of struggles that confronted every African who arrived on American shores. The subjects of Africans in the Old South include Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle, the mixed-race daughter of an African slave-trading family who invested in South Carolina rice plantations and slaves, passed as white, and integrated herself into the Lowcountry planter elite; Robert Johnson, kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Georgia, who later learned English, won his freedom, and joined the abolition movement in the North; Dimmock Charlton, who bought his freedom after being illegally enslaved in Savannah; and a group of unidentified Africans who were picked up by a British ship in the Caribbean, escaped in Mobile’s port, and were recaptured and eventually returned to their homeland. These exceptional lives challenge long-held assumptions about how the slave trade operated and who was involved. The African Atlantic was a complex world characterized by constant movement, intricate hierarchies, and shifting identities. Not all Africans who crossed the Atlantic were enslaved, nor was the voyage always one-way.

Speculators and Slaves

Speculators and Slaves
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Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015015510483
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Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Speculators and Slaves by : Michael Tadman

"In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive interregional trade in slaves. Using countless previously untapped manuscript sources, he documents black resilience in the face of the pervasive indifference of slaveholders toward slaves and their families ... By exploring the gulf between the slaveholders' self-image as benevolent paternalists and their actual behavior, Tadman critiques the theories of close accommodation and paternalistic hegemony that are currently influential"--From publisher's description.

Slave Trading in the Old South

Slave Trading in the Old South
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Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : LCCN:s59010883
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Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Slave Trading in the Old South by : Frederic Bancroft

Slavery and Freedom

Slavery and Freedom
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105008550506
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Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Slavery and Freedom by : James Oakes

This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.

Slave Trading in the Old South

Slave Trading in the Old South
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Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:31033675
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Slave Trading in the Old South by : Frederic Bancroft

A Troublesome Commerce

A Troublesome Commerce
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0807129224
ISBN-13 : 9780807129227
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis A Troublesome Commerce by : Robert H. Gudmestad

Robert H. Gudmestad provides an in-depth examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early nineteenth century, using the business as a means to explore economic change, the culture of honor, master-slave relationships, and the justification of slavery in the antebellum South. Gudmestad demonstrates how southerners, faced with the incongruity of maintaining their paternalistic beliefs about slavery even while capitalistically exploiting their slaves, coped by disassociating themselves from the brutality and greed of the slave trade and shifting responsibility for slavery’s realities to the speculators. In tracing the trans- formation of a troublesome commerce into a southern scapegoat, this pro- vocative work proves the interstate slave trade to be vital to the making—and understanding—of the paradoxical antebellum South.

Williams' Gang

Williams' Gang
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 485
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ISBN-10 : 9781108681995
ISBN-13 : 1108681999
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Williams' Gang by : Jeff Forret

William H. Williams operated a slave pen in Washington, DC, known as the Yellow House, and actively trafficked in enslaved men, women, and children for more than twenty years. His slave trading activities took an extraordinary turn in 1840 when he purchased twenty-seven enslaved convicts from the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond with the understanding that he could carry them outside of the United States for sale. When Williams conveyed his captives illegally into New Orleans, allegedly while en route to the foreign country of Texas, he prompted a series of courtroom dramas that would last for almost three decades. Based on court records, newspapers, governors' files, slave manifests, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and penitentiary data, Williams' Gang examines slave criminality, the coastwise domestic slave trade, and southern jurisprudence as it supplies a compelling portrait of the economy, society, and politics of the Old South.

Slave Trading in the Old South

Slave Trading in the Old South
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Total Pages : 445
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:270847233
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Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Slave Trading in the Old South by : Frederic Bancroft