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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... wife died , and the man attended the sale of his effects , and purchased in his wife and children . For all this I have authority which the gentleman will not question . She was then his by marriage , and by purchase , by the double ...
... wife . Sir , I have admitted , and do again admit , without qual- ification , that every fact in Uncle Tom's Cabin has occurred in the South . But , in reply , I say deliberately , what one of your first men told me , that he who will ...
... wife is the slave of her dusky lord , who has as many wives as he can buy ; his respectability being great in propor- tion to their number . The parent is allowed to sell his offspring into slavery ; and the price of a wife is generally ...
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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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