A troublesome commerce : the transformation of the interstate slave trade

A troublesome commerce : the transformation of the interstate slave trade /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gudmestad, Robert H., 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Slave trade > United States. Trade of enslaved persons > United States. Slave trade. United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the problem of speculation
The strands of forced migration
Slave resistance, coffles, and the debates over slavery in the Nation's Capital
The interstate slave trade and the Southern imagination : the Upper South
The interstate slave trade and the southern imagination : the Lower South
Profits and piety
The trade transformed
Speculation triumphant
Epilogue : a troubled legacy.