ISBN:
9780197578261
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Colby, Robert K.D Unholy traffic
DDC:
306.3620973
Keywords:
Periode des amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges und die Ära des Wiederaufbaus (1861 bis 1877)
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Slave trade History 19th century
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Slavery Economic aspects
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Slave trade History 19th century
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Slavery Economic aspects
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American Civil War
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Amerikanische Geschichte
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Economic history
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
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HIS056000
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HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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History of the Americas
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
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Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei
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Slavery & abolition of slavery
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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United States History 1849-1877
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Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
Abstract:
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. As An Unholy Traffic shows, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought. They mitigated the crises the war spawned by buying and selling enslaved people, using this commerce to navigate food shortages, unsettled gender roles, the demands of military service, and other hardships on the homefront. Some Rebels speculated wildly in human property, investing in slaves to ward off inflation and to buy shares in the slaveholding nation they hoped to create. Others traded people to counter the advance of emancipation. Given its centrality to their nationhood, Confederates went to great lengths to prolong the slave trade, which, in turn, supported the Confederacy. For those held in slavery, the surviving slave trade dramatically shaped their pursuit of freedom, inserting a retrograde movement into some people's journeys toward liberty while inspiring others to make the risky decision to escape. Offering an original perspective on the intersections of slavery, capitalism, the Civil War, and emancipation, Robert K.D. Colby illuminates the place of the peculiar institution within the Confederate mind, the ways in which it underpinned the CSA's war effort, and its impact on those attempting to seize their freedom
Abstract:
"During the American Civil War, Confederates bought and sold thousands of men, women, and children. A robust and surviving slave trade, the extension of a traffic that had emerged to support the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, enabled them to do so. Even though the war destroyed the economy that had long underpinned American slavery, Confederates nevertheless traded people from Fort Sumter to Appomattox. Some took advantage of the enduring slave trade to shape their experiences of the war, using their ability to force people into motion to mobilize for the conflict or to weather the numerous crises it created on the homefront. Others speculated wildly, investing in the enslaved during the war to ward off inflation and to buy shares in the slaveholding future for which they fought. Still others traded people to ward off the progress of emancipation. For those held in slavery, meanwhile, the surviving slave trade dramatically shaped the ways in which they encountered freedom, preventing many from achieving it by yanking them back into bondage even as it inspired others to take the risk of escaping. The Civil War slave trade thus profoundly shaped the experience of the conflict for all residents of the American South. Regardless of the choices they made--to buy or to sell people, to risk sale or to flee from it--the effects of the slave trade reverberated throughout the conflict and produced legacies that endured long after the guns fell silent."
Description / Table of Contents:
"No Money, and No Confidence" : Slave Commerce, Secession, and the Panic of 1860 -- The "Uncongenial Air of Freedom" : Union Occupation and the Slave Trade -- "Old Abe Is Not Feared in this Region" : The Revival of Confederate Slave Commerce -- "Negroes Will Bear Fabulous Prices" : Inflation, Speculation, and the Confederate Future -- "Liable to Be Sold at Any Moment" : State-Making, Continuity, and the Slave Trade -- Sold "Far Out of the Way of Lincoln" : Emancipation and Counterrevolutionary Slave Commerce -- "Broke...All Up" : The Ends and Afterlives of the Wartime Slave Trade.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-C, Bezug zu Afroamerikanern
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