[This volume] takes us far beyond what we already know about the importance of the domestic slave trade. [In the volume, the author] shows us just how tightly entwined the domestic slave trade actually became with the overall development of the nation itself, North no less than …
A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the busine…
"Drawing together the voices of professional slave traders and abolitionists, buyers and overseers, politicians and enslaved peoples, Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history. In so doing, this far-reaching…
"Drawing together the voices of professional slave traders and abolitionists, buyers and overseers, politicians and enslaved peoples, Carry Me Back restores the domestic slave trade to the prominent place that it deserves in early American history. In so doing, this far-reaching…
A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the busine…