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Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market
Title:
Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market
Author:
Johnson, Walter, 1967-
Personal Author:
Johnson, Walter, 1967-
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
283 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Chattel principle -- Between the prices -- Making a world out of slaves -- Turning people into products -- Reading bodies and marking race -- Acts of sale -- Life in the shadow of the slave market.
Subject Term:
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.
Geographic Term:
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.

New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780674821484
Format :
Book

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