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Speculators And Slaves: Masters, Traders, And Slaves In The Old South Paperback – December 1, 1989
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Print length336 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
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Publication dateDecember 1, 1989
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Dimensions9.07 x 6.12 x 0.95 inches
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ISBN-100299118541
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ISBN-13978-0299118549
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“This detailed, meticulously researched and documented analysis of the internal slave trade represents historical scholarship at its best. This study is must reading for all those interested in African-American history.”—Robert R. Davis, The American Historical Review
“Amid the steady stream of new books on the various aspects of antebellum history, here is one that makes a real difference.”—Gavin Wright, Journal of American History
“A model of demographic, social, and cultural history . . . tightly argued, beautifully written, and imaginatively proved.”—Laurence A. Glasco, The Historian
“A model work of social science history.”—Russell R. Menard, Journal of the Early Republic
“Well-written and handsomely illustrated, Speculators and Slaves is an impressive addition to slavery historiography, a sensitive exercise in quantification, and a work of diligent and humane scholarship.”—John White, Immigrants and Minorities
“Speculators and Slaves will become the indispensible work on the internal slave trade of the antebellum South -- its magnitude, profitability, and effects upon both slaves and masters.”
—Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester
—Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester
“Presented in a graceful prose . . . this work is iconoclastic in the best sense of the historian’s craft.”—John Edmund Stealey, III, West Virginia History
From the Publisher
Now available in paperback with a new Introduction
About the Author
Michael Tadman is lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Liverpool. His other published work includes a new edition of Frederic Bancroft’s 1931 classic, Slave Trading in the Old South.
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- Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press; New edition (December 1, 1989)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0299118541
- ISBN-13 : 978-0299118549
- Item Weight : 1.09 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.07 x 6.12 x 0.95 inches
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- #317 in U.S. Abolition of Slavery History
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Excellent! Very useful for students that wish to know and understand the truth about the ugly behavior of America's past and the fact that kidnapped people never went quietly into submission.
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Good reference for research project
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2007
This book is not, unfortunately, an easy read. It's thorough, careful, and heavily reliant on close analysis of bills of sales. Tadman's conclusion is that slave "owners" were speculators, selling slaves when the price was high, and holding them when it was low. (An important defense of slavery was that slave "owners" only sold slaves when financially pressed--this book shows the opposite was true.) Tadman calculates that "at least" 69.3% of the 154,000 interregional exportations in the 1820s were sales (with the rest slaves taken along with immigrating planters; Tadman 246). Unless those 106,722 slaves were all unmarried orphans, slave "owners" broke up a lot of families. Tadman estimates that the interregional slave trade broke up families in 51% of cases (150); this trade would have led to the termination of one out of every five marriages in the Upper South; one out of three children under the age of fourteen would have been sold away from parents. Local sales, he says "would have raised this proportion to about one in two" (211-2).
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