In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the UnionPennsylvania State University Press, 2001 - 516 páginas In the Hands of Strangers is a collection of sixty-seven documents by writers and witnesses from the past, both black and white, that offer perspectives on the trade and movement of slaves. Many elucidate the long-standing discord between North and South over the issue of slavery. Documents are divided into three parts that cover the African slave trade, the internal U.S. slave trade, and the series of conflicts and crises that led to the Civil War. They cover a variety of topics including the forced transport of slaves throughout East Coast and Gulf Coast states, buying and selling of slaves, increasingly contentious debates over the legitimacy of slavery, and effects of the breakup of families. The volume concludes with a brilliant essay by Frederick Douglass that asks the question: "What shall be done with the Negro?" |
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... Constitution conferring this very guaranty . Constitutions and judicial decisions and religious obliga- tions are alike outraged by our State enactments against people of color . There is scarcely a slave State in which a citizen of New ...
... Constitution . The duty of the court is , to inter- pret the instrument they have framed , with the best lights we can obtain on the subject , and to administer , as we find it , according to its true intent and meaning when it was ...
... Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were in- tended to bear when the instrument was ... Constitution itself ; we have the legislation of the different States , before , about the time , and since , the ...
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The African Slave Trade Legal and Illegal | 1 |
The Internal Slave Trade of the United States | 111 |
Conflict and Crisis of the Union on the Road to Civil | 303 |
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