The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

by Joshua D. Rothman

Book Overview

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America.

Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men--who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South--were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541616618
• ISBN13: 9781541616615
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"