| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-273) and index. |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Chattel principle -- ch. 2. Between the prices -- ch. 3. Making a world out of slaves -- ch. 4. Turning people into products -- ch. 5. Reading bodies and marking race -- ch. 6. Acts of sale -- ch. 7. Life in the shadow of the slave market -- Epilogue: Southern history and the slave trade. |
| 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."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Awards |
ASA Award in American Studies 1999 |
| Subject |
Slaves -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Slave trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Slaveholders -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0674821483 (alk. paper) |
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9780674821484 (alk. paper) |
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0674005392 (pbk.) |
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9780674005396 paper |
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9780674821484 hardcover |
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9780674039155 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb00050 hdl |
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