The chattel principle : internal slave trades in the Americas / edited by Walter Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Walter, 1967-

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Series:

The David Brion Davis Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Slavery.

Slavery--West Indies, British--History--19th century--Congresses.

Slavery--Brazil--History--19th century--Congresses.

Slave trade--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--West Indies, British--History--19th century--Congresses.

Slave trade--Brazil--History--19th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. The Domestication of the Slave Trade in the United States

3. ''We'm Fus' Rate Bargain''

4. Slave Resistance, Coffles, and the Debates over Slavery in the Nation's Capital

5. The Domestic Slave Trade in America

6. The Interregional Slave Trade in the History and Myth-Making of the U.S. South

7. Reconsidering the Internal Slave Trade

8. ''Cuffy,'' ''Fancy Maids,'' and ''One-Eyed Men''

9. Grapevine in the Slave Market

10. The Fragmentation of Atlantic Slavery and the British Intercolonial Slave Trade

11. ''An Unfeeling Traffick''

12. The Kelsall Affair

13. Another Middle Passage?

14. The Brazilian Internal Slave Trade, 1850-1888

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Papers from the first Gilder Lehrman Center international conference held at Yale University in Oct. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611730284

9781281730282

1281730289

9780300129472

0300129475

OCLC:

923588578