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The Chattel Principle - Johnson, Walter - Yale University Press
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Jan 24, 2005
400 p., 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
ISBN: 9780300103557
ISBN-10: 0300103557
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Paper: $40.00 tx
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The Chattel PrincipleInternal Slave Trades in the Americas
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Edited by Walter Johnson; Foreword by David Brion Davis
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.
Walter Johnson is associate professor of American Studies and History, New York University. He is the author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
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