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Title The chattel principle : internal slave trades in the Americas / edited by Walter Johnson
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 389 pages)
Series David Brion Davis (Gilder Lehrman) Ser
David Brion Davis (Gilder Lehrman) Ser
Contents The future store / Walter Johnson -- The domestication of the slave trade in the United States / Adam Rothman -- "We'm fus' rate bargain": value, labor, and price in a Georgia slave community / Diana Ramey Berry -- Slave resistance, coffles, and the debates over slavery in the nation's capital / Robert H. Gudmestad -- The domestic slave trade in America: the lifeblood of the Southern slave system / Steven Deyle -- The interregional slave trade in the history and myth-making of the U.S. South / Michael Tadman -- Reconsidering the internal slave trade: paternalism, markets, and the character of the old South / Lacy Ford -- 'Cuffy', 'fancy maids', and 'one-eyed men': rape, commodification, and the domestic slave trade in the United States / Edward E. Baptist -- Grapevine in the slave market: African American geopolitical literacy and the 1841 Creole Revolt / Phillip Troutman -- The fragmentation of Atlantic slavery and the British intercolonial slave trade / Seymour Drescher -- 'An unfeeling traffick': the intercolonial movement of slaves in the British Caribbean, 1807-1833 / Hilary McD. Beckles -- The Kelsall affair: a black Bahamian family's odyssey in turbulent 1840s Cuba / Manuel Barcia Paz -- Another middle passage? the internal slave trade in Brazil / Richard Graham -- The Brazilian internal slave trade, 1850-1888: regional economies, slave experience, and the politics of a peculiar market / Robert W. Slenes
Summary Presenting a comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies and the Southern States of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Papers from the first Gilder Lehrman Center international conference held at Yale University in Oct. 1999
English
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Subject Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Slave trade -- West Indies, British -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
HISTORY -- General.
Slave trade
Slavery
Sklavenhandel
Escravidão (história) -- Século 19 -- Estados unidos.
Escravidão (história) -- Século 19 -- Antilhas holandesas.
Escravidão (história) -- Século 19 -- Brasil.
Escravos (história) -- Século 19 -- Estados unidos.
Escravos (história) -- Século 19 -- Antilhas holandesas.
Escravos (história) -- Século 19 -- Brasil.
Brazil
United States
West Indies -- British West Indies
Amerika
New Haven <Conn., 1999.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Walter, 1967- editor.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
ISBN 9780300129472
0300129475
9786611730284
6611730281