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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... girl named said interest being three fourths of said negro . ' Three fourths of a negro to be sold at auction ! There was something here which excited more than ordinary curiosity : the application of vulgar fractions to personal ...
... girl in Lynchburg , I can't ' member her name jus ' now , she was little , ' bout eight or nine I guess , an ' she ... girl's feet in de fire to kind of thaw ' em out , an ' burn ' em . Well , dere was a law in Lynchburg dat iffen you ...
... girl that lived over on another plantation joining ours and that negro would go over there when Maser told him to go to bed in his quarters , and just as soon as Maser got to bed he would get up and slip off over to see his girl , and ...
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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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