Soul by soul
Subtitle: life inside the antebellum slave market
By: Walter Johnson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Slaves -- 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
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Chattel principle -- -- ch. 2.; title: Between the prices -- -- ch. 3.; title: Making a world out of slaves -- -- ch. 4.; title: Turning people into products -- -- ch. 5.; title: Reading bodies and marking race -- -- ch. 6.; title: Acts of sale -- -- ch. 7.; title: Life in the shadow of the slave market.