The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Rothman, Joshua D.

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the...
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Author: Joshua D. Rothman
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America by Rothman, Joshua D.

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

CHF 28.90

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

CHF 28.90
Author: Joshua D. Rothman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America

Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men--who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South--were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States.

In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation.

Author: Joshua D. Rothman
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781541616608

About the Author
Joshua D. Rothman is professor of history and chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of two prize-winning books, Flush Times and Fever Dreams and Notorious in the Neighborhood. He lives in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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