Philip Noel Racine, Frances Melton Racine

Backcountry Slave Trader (eBook, ePUB)

William James Smith's Enterprise, 1844-1854

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity. The authors' analyze these entries and his correspondence, which they argue provide details about the institutional features of the domestic slave trade not found in earlier published works. The authors examine the attitude of Smith and how he conducted his business, and reveal that the interior slave trade and the characterization of the slave trader are more nuanced than previously thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498590839
• Artikelnr.: 58693420

Autorenporträt

Philip Noel Racine is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at Wofford College. Fran Racine is retired from over thirty years of teaching U.S. and European history at the secondary and college levels.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
Editorial Policies
Smith Family Tree
Table of Monetary Equivalents
Introduction
Chapter One: Origins of a Slave Trader
Chapter Two: A Peculiar Trade in a Peculiar Institution
Chapter Three: The Market and the Nature of the Trade
Chapter Four: Novice Trader
Chapter Five: Maturing Trader
Chapter Six: Provisions
Chapter Seven: High Prices, High Profits
Conclusion
Epilogue
The Letters to Elihu Penquite Smith
Slave Trading Ledger of William James Smith, 1844-54
About the Authors