The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas (The David Brion Davis Series)

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave tradewithinthe nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.

The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade __within__ thenations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery. Contents 7 Foreword 9 1. Introduction 11 2. The Domestication of the Slave Trade in the United States 42 3. ‘‘We’m Fus’ Rate Bargain’’ 65 4. Slave Resistance, Coffles, and the Debates over Slavery in the Nation’s Capital 82 5. The Domestic Slave Trade in America 101 6. The Interregional Slave Trade in the History and Myth-Making of the U.S. South 127 7. Reconsidering the Internal Slave Trade 153 8. ‘‘Cuffy,’’ ‘‘Fancy Maids,’’ and ‘‘One-Eyed Men’’ 175 9. Grapevine in the Slave Market 213 10. The Fragmentation of Atlantic Slavery and the British Intercolonial Slave Trade 244 11. ‘‘An Unfeeling Traffick’’ 266 12. The Kelsall Affair 285 13. Another Middle Passage? 301 14. The Brazilian Internal Slave Trade, 1850–1888 335 Contributors 381 Index 383 Presenting a comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies and the Southern States of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade