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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... sell them in our cities . If it is no sin to hold men as horses , it is no sin to sell them ; and the man who collects them in droves commits no sin . It is there- fore wrong in pro - slavery church members to treat them with disrespect ...
... sell for ? " " Sell her for ! Why shouldn't he sell her ? He sells one or two every year ; wants the money for ' em , I reckon . " The irritated tone and severe stare with which this took as a caution not to pursue his investigation ...
... sell white people . I asked him if it was more wrong than to sell black people . He made no reply . . . . But let us further reason upon the testimony of advertisements . What is to be understood by the following , of the Memphis Eagle ...
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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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