This book is an examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early 19th 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.
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A native of Minnesota, Robert Gudmestad earned his PhD from Louisiana State University and is currently an associate professor at Colorado State University. In addition to his books about slavery and steamboats, he has written about the memory of the Civil War and baseball. His current research project is a history of Civil War gunboats and efforts to control the western waters. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife and two children and can be contacted at robert.gudmestad@colostate.edu.
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When the charter members of the American Colonization Society met in 1816, they wanted to select a prominent slaveholder to lead the organization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interstate slave trade, undirected letter, professional slave trader, remaining quotations, domestic slave trade, slave jail, coastwise trade, internal slave trade, slave shipments, importing states, prohibitory legislation, slave coffles, interstate trade, northern representatives, negro traders, slave trafficking, slave sales, first quotation, final quotation, southern evangelicals, second quotation, selling slaves, third quotation, slave families, white migrants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Upper South, New York, Deep South, United States, Lower South, South Carolina, District of Columbia, Genius of Universal Emancipation, Isaac Franklin, Ballard Papers, Baltimore American, North Carolina, Old South, Weekly Register, Richmond Enquirer, Baton Rouge, John Armfield, Western Luminary, Bacon Tait, John Hartwell Cocke, Nat Turner, Supreme Court, Andrew Jackson, John Randolph New!
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interstate slave trade, undirected letter, professional slave trader, remaining quotations, domestic slave trade, slave jail, coastwise trade, internal slave trade, slave shipments, importing states, prohibitory legislation, slave coffles, interstate trade, northern representatives, negro traders, slave trafficking, slave sales, first quotation, final quotation, southern evangelicals, second quotation, selling slaves, third quotation, slave families, white migrants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, Upper South, New York, Deep South, United States, Lower South, South Carolina, District of Columbia, Genius of Universal Emancipation, Isaac Franklin, Ballard Papers, Baltimore American, North Carolina, Old South, Weekly Register, Richmond Enquirer, Baton Rouge, John Armfield, Western Luminary, Bacon Tait, John Hartwell Cocke, Nat Turner, Supreme Court, Andrew Jackson, John Randolph New!
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- The Slave Trade (Idol Series) by James Masters on 7 pages
- Slavery in Mississippi by Charles Sydnor on 5 pages
- Honor and Slavery by Kenneth S. Greenberg on 5 pages
- Double Character: Slavery and Master in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom by Ariela J. Gross on 4 pages
- Travels In North America (3 Volumes) by Basil Hall on 4 pages
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- New Studies in the History of American Slavery by Edward E. Baptist on page 267
- Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic by Matthew Mason in Back Matter
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