An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South
ISBN-10
0197578268
ISBN-13
9780197578261
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
361
Language
English
Published
2024
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Robert K. D. Colby

Description

During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.

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