Description: Further DetailsTitle: Soul by SoulCondition: NewEAN: 9780674005396ISBN: 9780674005396Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/02/2001Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 358gAuthor: Walter JohnsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave MarketISBN-10: 0674005392Description: Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the John Hope Franklin PrizeWinner of the Avery O. Craven AwardSoul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, 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 this chilling trade 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.Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders’ letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market’s slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by “feeding them up,” dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage.Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution” in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesItem Width: 25mmRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Soul by Soul
Title: Soul by Soul
EAN: 9780674005396
ISBN: 9780674005396
Release Date: 03/02/2001
Release Year: 2001
Subtitle: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
ISBN-10: 0674005392
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Soul by Soul : Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Slavery, United States / 19th Century, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Walter Johnson
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
