An unholy traffic : slave trading in the Civil War South / Robert K.D. Colby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colby, Robert K.D., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Southern States--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States.

Slavery.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. As 'An Unholy Traffic' shows, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought. They mitigated the crises the war spawned by buying and selling enslaved people, using this commerce to navigate food shortages, unsettled gender roles, the demands of military service, and other hardships on the homefront.

Contents:

Cover

An Unholy Traffic

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. "No Money, and No Confidence": Slave Trading, Secession, and the Panic of 1860

2. The "Uncongenial Air of Freedom": Union Occupation and the Slave Trade

3. "Old Abe Is Not Feared in This Region": The Revival of Confederate Slave Commerce

4. "Negroes Will Bear Fabulous Prices": Inflation, Speculation, and the Confederate Future

5. "Liable to Be Sold at Any Moment": State-​Making, Continuity, and the Slave Trade

6. Sold "Far Out of the Way of Lincoln": Emancipation and Counterrevolutionary Slave Commerce

7. "Broke . . . All Up": The Ends and Afterlives of the Wartime Slave Trade

Epilogue

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-757829-2

0-19-757827-6

OCLC:

1412042395