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Summary:

Review: "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."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Walter, 1967- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market [by Johnson, W.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Soul by soul [by Johnson, W.] (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 — LCCN 99046696)

Subjects:

Enslaved persons — Louisiana — New Orleans — Social conditions — 19th century

Slave trade — Louisiana — New Orleans — History — 19th century

African Americans — Louisiana — New Orleans — Social conditions — 19th century

Slaveholders — Louisiana — New Orleans — History — 19th century

New Orleans (La.) — Race relations

New Orleans (La.) — Social conditions — 19th century

1800-1899

Enslaved persons

Slave trade

African Americans — Social conditions

African Americans

Slaveholders

Race relations

Social conditions

Enslaved persons — Social conditions

Louisiana — Orleans Parish

Louisiana — New Orleans

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-273) and index.
ASA Award in American Studies 1999.
All rights reserved.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2022).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

F379.N59 B5356 1999eb

ISBNs:

9780674039155 (electronic book)
0674039157 (electronic book)
9780674821484 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
0674821483 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
9780674005396 (paperback) [Invalid]
0674005392 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99046696 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

54644159