Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South /

"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...

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Main Author: Pargas, Damian Alan
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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.
Slaves > 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.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I. Migration -- Valuable Bodies -- The Gathering Storm -- Changing Places -- Part II. Assimilation -- Cogs in the Wheel -- Managing Newcomers -- Slave Crucibles -- Conclusion. 
520 2 |a "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 forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes"-- 
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