Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South / Damian Alan Pargas, Leiden University.

"American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding Southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forc...

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Main Author: Pargas, Damian Alan (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:
Slavery > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Forced migration > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Migrant labor > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Assimilation (Sociology) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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