Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 p.)
ISBN:
9780300129472
Series Statement:
The David Brion Davis Ser.
Content:
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, 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. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by David Brion Davis -- 1 Introduction: The Future Store. Walter Johnson -- 2 The Domestication of the Slave Trade in the United States. Adam Rothman -- 3 "We'm Fus' Rate Bargain": Value, Labor, and Price in a Georgia Slave Community. Daina Ramey Berry -- 4 Slave Resistance, Coffles, and the Debates over Slavery in the Nation's Capital. Robert H. Gudmestad -- 5 The Domestic Slave Trade in America: The Lifeblood of the Southern Slave System. Steven Deyle -- 6 The Interregional Slave Trade in the History and Myth-Making of the U.S. South. Michael Tadman -- 7 Reconsidering the Internal Slave Trade: Paternalism, Markets, and the Character of the Old South. Lacy Ford -- 8 "Cuffy," "Fancy Maids," and "One-Eyed Men": Rape, Commodification, and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States. Edward E. Baptist -- 9 Grapevine in the Slave Market: African American Geopolitical Literacy and the 1841 Creole Revolt. Phillip Troutman -- 10 The Fragmentation of Atlantic Slavery and the British Intercolonial Slave Trade. Seymour Drescher -- 11 "An Unfeeling Traffick": The Intercolonial Movement of Slaves in the British Caribbean, 1807-1833. Hilary McD. Beckles -- 12 The Kelsall Affair: A Black Bahamian Family's Odyssey in Turbulent 1840s Cuba. Manuel Barcia Paz -- 13 Another Middle Passage? The Internal Slave Trade in Brazil. Richard Graham -- 14 The Brazilian Internal Slave Trade, 1850-1888: Regional Economies, Slave Experience, and the Politics of a Peculiar Market. Robert W. Slenes -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300103557
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780300103557
Language:
English
