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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... look at him . See how high he is . ( He draws the lot in front of him , and shews that the little fellow's head comes up to his breast . ) You see he is a fine , tall , healthy boy . Look at his hands . " Several step forward , and ...
... look back over the years , can relate these experiences as clearly as if they had happened only yesterday . Both were born near Norfolk , Virginia , and sold several times on nearby plantations . It was on the plantation of “ Big Jim ...
... look upon it as even immoral upon their own principles . Let us admit that slavery is an evil , and what then ? Why , it has been entailed upon us by no fault of ours , and must we shrink from the charge which devolves upon us , 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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