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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... land enough to employ all the slaves in Virginia . This , too , is land which will produce 2000 pounds of seed cotton per acre , and ten bales may be made per hand . By supplying the demand for slaves in the Western States from Africa ...
... Land in the interior offered it- self at less than one dollar per acre . Land on the seaboard had been raised to fifty dollars per acre , and labor , forced to elect between them , took the cheaper .... Lands on the seaboard were forced ...
... land now utterly valueless . . . . Now , my belief is - but of course it is only an opinion , and it will re- quire time to discuss and consider it in all its bearings — that ten thousand , a hundred thousand , or even a million of ...
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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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