The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas

by Walter Johnson

Book Overview

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300103557
• ISBN13: 9780300103557
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"