A troublesome commerce
Subtitle: the transformation of the interstate slave trade
By: Robert H. Gudmestad.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Slave trade -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the problem of speculation; title: The strands of forced migration; title: Slave resistance, coffles, and the debates over slavery in the Nation's Capital; title: The interstate slave trade and the Southern imagination : the Upper South; title: The interstate slave trade and the southern imagination : the Lower South; title: Profits and piety; title: The trade transformed; title: Speculation triumphant; title: Epilogue : a troubled legacy.