Soul by Soul

Walter Johnson Walter Johnson Tom Perkins First published 1999

About this book

"Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of these chilling transactions into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each.

What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

  • 19th century
  • african americans
  • african americans, louisiana, new orleans
  • african americans, social conditions
  • afro-americans
  • history
  • new orleans (la.), history
  • new orleans (la.), social conditions
  • race relations
  • slaveholders
  • slavery, united states
  • slaves
  • slaves, social conditions
  • slave trade
  • social conditions