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 fuelled
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 centre
of capital flows connecting southern fields to north-eastern banks.
Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence
toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity
that forever transformed the nation.
General
| Imprint: |
BasicBooks
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Joshua D Rothman
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
512 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5416-1660-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5416-1660-X |
| Barcode: |
9781541616608 |
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