A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade - Brossura

Gudmestad, Robert H.

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ISBN 10: 0807129224 ISBN 13: 9780807129227

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Robert H. Gudmestad provides an in-depth examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early nineteenth century, using the business as a means to explore economic change, the culture of honor, master-slave relationships, and the justi?cation of slavery in the antebellum South. Gudmestad demonstrates how southerners, faced with the incongruity of maintaining their paternalistic beliefs about slavery even while capitalistically exploiting their slaves, coped by disassociating themselves from the brutality and greed of the slave trade and shifting responsibility for slavery’s realities to the speculators. In tracing the trans- formation of a troublesome commerce into a southern scapegoat, this pro- vocative work proves the interstate slave trade to be vital to the making—and understanding—of the paradoxical antebellum South.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Robert H. Gudmestad is an assistant professor of history at Colorado author of Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807129224
• ISBN 13: 9780807129227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile