Slave trading in the Old South. / Frederic Bancroft. Introduction by Allan Nevins. With Illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945.

Contributor:

Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American classics (New York, N.Y.)

American classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--United States.

Slave trade.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 415 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1959.

Summary:

Through correspondence with people involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves, Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the American slave trade, including the breeding of slaves for future sale, the separation of slave families, the profitability of the trade, and the integration of slave traders into the highest ranks of southern society.

Contents:

Some phases of the background

Early domestic slave-trading

The District of Columbia, "The very seat and center"

The importance of slave-rearing

Virginia and the Richmond market

Here and there in Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri

Slave-hiring

The height of the slave-trade in Charleston

Dividing families and selling children separately, restrictions

Savannah's leading trader and his largest sale

Minor trading in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee

Memphis: the Boltons, the Forrests and others

Various features of the interstate trade

Some Alabama and Mississippi markets

New Orleans, the mistress of the trade

High prices and "the Negro-fever"

The status of slave-trading

Estimates as to numbers, transactions and value.

Notes:

"Copyright 1931 by Frederick Bancroft. Republished 1959 by arrangement with the author's estate."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has front and back lapels pasted on front pastedown and back free endpaper.

Banks Collection copy has stamp Anacostia Neighborhood Museum Research Center ... Washington, D.C. stamped over Library Frederick Douglass Institute of Negro Arts and History, The Museum of African Art ... Washington, D.C."

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing, 1964".

Other Format:

Online version: Bancroft, Frederic, 1860-1945. Slave trading in the Old South.

OCLC:

877115