The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Joshua D. Rothman

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

Joshua D. Rothman

512 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced

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The harrowing history of America's internal slave trade 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 Sout...

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