Week 5: Internal slave trade
Gobbets:
- Ball chs 1 & 2
- Northup ch 6
- Olmsted pp30-40
Questions
How was it possible for an internal slave trade to emerge? How did white southerners view those who traded in slaves? How important was the internal slave trade in the development of the antislavery crusade? What was the prevailing slave attitude towards slave traders and slave trading?
Core Reading
- Johnson, Walter [ebook] Introduction
E-Resources
- American Nineteenth Century History (2007) 247-271
- Lightner, David, 'The interstate slave trade in antislavery politics' CWH 36 (1990) 119-136
- Lightner, David, 'The door to the slave Bastille: the abolitionist assault on the interstate slave trade, 1833-1839' CWH 34 (1988) 235-252
- Calderhead, William, 'The professional slave trader in a slave economy: Austin Woolfolk, a case study' CWH 23 (1977) 195-211
- Calderhead, William, 'How extensive was the border state slave trade? A new look' CWH 18 (1972) 42-110
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Follett, Richard. 'Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in Louisiana's Sugar Country,' American Nineteenth Century History, 1 (2000)
Further Reading
- Tadman, Michael, Speculators and slaves: masters, traders and slaves in the old South.
- Bancroft, Frederic Slave trading in the Old South
- C. S. Syndor, Slavery in Mississippi
- Fields, Barbara, Slavery and Freedom on the middle ground, Maryland during the nineteenth century (ch 1 & 2)
- Moody, V A, Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations (pt 1)
- Ransom, Roger, Conflict & compromise (ch 2&3)
- Bassett, J, Slavery in the state of North Carolina
- Oakes, James, The Ruling Race ch 3 [in src]
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Rothman, Adam Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South.