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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... dollars for each captive , who is henceforth the king's slave ; but on return to his capital after a successful enterprise , he is in the habit of distributing a number of these unfortunate creatures among his head men , and at the same ...
... dollars — 500 dollars ( speaking quick , his right hand raised up , and coming down on the open palm of his left ) 500 dollars . Any one say more than 500 dollars ? ( 560 is bid . ) 560 dollars . Nonsense ! Just look at him . See how ...
... dollars are only bid for the man - 860 dollars . ( A fresh run of bids to 945 dollars . ) 945 dollars once , 945 dollars twice ( looking slowly round , to see if all were done ) , 945 dollars , going - going ( hand drops ) —gone ...
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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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