Original publication date
1999
Pages
10; 283
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, c1999; Fifth printing, 2000
Physical description
10, 283 p.; 23.4 cm
ISBN
0674821483 / 9780674821484
Language
Original language
English
Description
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, 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 this chilling trade 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.
Subjects
Awards
PROSE Award (Honorable Mention — History — 2000)
Frederick Jackson Turner Award (Winner — 2000)