by Walter Johnson (Author)
This work tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving into heart of the domestic slave trade, the slave market. Taking the reader inside the New Orleans slave market the author transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 290
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0674005392
ISBN 13: 9780674005396