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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... Union , " was , in fact , " committed to leave it " if the North did not desist in its abuses ( see Doc . 3.16 ) . Yet , when this same zealot learned soon after secession that the Confederate constitu- tion had retained the ban on the ...
... Union and offering three reasons for doing so . First , the Union did not offer reciprocal benefits to the North ; second , " a vast proportion " of northern revenues was being drained off each year to support the objectives of the ...
... Union : that against this invasion of our laws , of our feel- ings , and of the dictates of Christianity , we solemnly protest : that we call upon the citizens of the Union to make cause in the name of religion and humanity , and as ...
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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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