Robert K. D. Colby

An Unholy Traffic

Slave Trading in the Civil War South

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 170mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780197578261
• ISBN-10: 0197578268
• Artikelnr.: 69299616

Autorenporträt

Robert K.D. Colby is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His research on the domestic slave trade has won multiple awards, including the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: "No Money, and No Confidence": Slave Commerce, Secession,
and the Panic of 1860
* Chapter 2: The "Uncongenial Air of Freedom": Union Occupation and the
Slave Trade
* Chapter 3: "Old Abe Is Not Feared in this Region": The Revival of
Confederate Slave Commerce
* Chapter 4: "Negroes Will Bear Fabulous Prices": Inflation,
Speculation, and the Confederate Future
* Chapter 5: "Liable to Be Sold at Any Moment": State-Making,
Continuity, and the Slave Trade
* Chapter 6: Sold "Far Out of the Way of Lincoln": Emancipation and
Counterrevolutionary Slave Commerce
* Chapter 7: "Broke...All Up": The Ends and Afterlives of the Wartime
Slave Trade
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Select Bibliography
* Index