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.
Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrant.
This book sheds new light on domestic Forced Migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective.
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