Speculators and slaves
Subtitle: masters, traders, and slaves in the Old South
By: Michael Tadman.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Slave-trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Slave traders -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.; Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Slave-trade -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Slave traders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
Description: In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tadman establishes that all levels of white society in the antebellum South were deeply involved in a massive interregional trade in slaves. Using countless previously untapped manuscript sources, he documents black resilience in the face of the pervasive indifference of slaveholders toward slaves and their families. This new paperback edition of Speculators and Slaves offers a substantial new Introduction that advances a major thesis of master-slave relationships. By exploring the gulf between the slaveholders' self-image as benevolent paternalists and their actual behavior, Tadman critiques the theories of close accommodation and paternalistic hegemony that are currently influential.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.
"New paperback edition ... offers a substantially new introduction"--P. [4] of cover.