The Slave Trade & Migration

First Published in 1990. American slavery began in Africa. An understanding of slavery begins with the African slave trade and the domestic slave trade. Both were indispensable to the creation of the New World slave societies, including the colonies that became the United States. This book is part of a eighteen volume series collecting nearly four hundred of the most important articles on slavery in the United States. Volume 2 looks at the domestic and foreign slave trade and migration and includes pioneering articles in the history of slavery, important break-throughs in research and methodology, and articles that offer major historiographical interpretations.

Finkelman, Paul

Contents of the Series 1. Slavery and Historiography 2. Slave Trade and Migration: Domestic and Foreign 3. Colonial Southern Slavery 4. Slavery, Revolutionary America, and the New Nation 5. Slavery in the North and the West 6. Fugitive Slaves 7. Southern Slavery at the State and Local Level 8. The Culture and Community of Slavery 9. Women and the Family in a Slave Society 10. Economics, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Slavery 11. Law, the Constitution, and Slavery 12. Proslavery Thought, Ideology, and Politics 13. Rebellion, Resistance, and Runaways Within the Slave South 14. Antislavery 15. Medicine, Nutrition, Demography, and Slavery 16. Religion and Slavery 17. Free Blacks in a Slave Society 18. Comparative Issues in Slavery