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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... increased during the decade which was signalized by the annexation of Texas . In Kentucky , slaves increased in both ... increase to the extreme South . The Richmond ( Va . ) Examiner , of May 29 , 1857 , says : " The mistaken idea seems ...
... increase it ? Instead of increasing the popula- tion of the whites , there will be no whites at all . If the low country is de- serted , where will be the commerce , the valuable exports of that country , the large revenue raised from ...
... increase , and thereby keep down the population to its present amount , while the whites , increasing at their usual rate , would fi- nally become relatively so numerous as to render the presence of the blacks among us for ever ...
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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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