Soul by Soul - Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

This award-winning volume takes readers inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced and sold. Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling practice into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each.

List of contents

Introduction: A Person with a Price The Chattel Principle Between the Prices Making a World Out of Slaves Turning People into Products Reading Bodies and Marking Race Acts of Sale Life in the Shadow of the Slave Market Epilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the author

Walter Johnson is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at New York University.

Summary

Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Johnson
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2001
• EAN: 9780674005396
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00539-6
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Illustrations: 20 halftones
• Series: Life Inside the Antebellum Sla; Life Inside the Antebellum Sla
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Louisiana, Ethnic Studies, Geography, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, History of the Americas, John Brown, Abolitionism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, archives, enslaved people, chattel, redhibition law, human commodity, charles ball, twelve years a slave, antislavery movement, mississippi river, john knight, slave pens, first person accounts slavery, henry bibb, cotton kingdom, solomon northup