Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Revised Edition Contributor(s): Johnson, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674005392 ISBN-13: 9780674005396 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: This award-winning volume takes readers inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced and sold. Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling practice into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Social History |
Dewey: 976.335 |
LCCN: 99046696 |
Series: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.06" W x 9.2" (0.81 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award |
Contributor Bio(s): Johnson, Walter: - Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. |