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Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South

Pargas, Damian Alan

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9781107031210, 1107031214, 9781107658967, 1107658969

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E449.P235 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE