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Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market / Walter Johnson.
LIBRA F379.N59 N4 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Walter, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions--19th century.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave trade--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.
- Slave trade.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Slaveholders.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Slaveholders--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 283 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of these chilling transactions 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Person with a Price 1
- 1 The Chattel Principle 19
- 2 Between the Prices 45
- 3 Making a World Out of Slaves 78
- 4 Turning People into Products 117
- 5 Reading Bodies and Marking Race 135
- 6 Acts of Sale 162
- 7 Life in the Shadow of the Slave Market 189
- Epilogue: Southern History and the Slave Trade 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-273) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Storage copy has signature of Sheldon Hackney in front.
- Storage copy has MS. notes by Sheldon Hackney at end.
- ISBN:
- 0674821483
- 0674005391
- 0674005392
- OCLC:
- 42454048
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