Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

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ID19930400
AuthorsDamian Alan Pargas (Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSlavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139381345
OpenAlexW576452880
ISBN9781139381345
Open LibraryOL28545787M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

Archaeology · Art · Economic history · Forced migration · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science) · Visual arts · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · Assimilation (Sociology) · Internal Migration · Migrant labor · Migration, internal · race relations · Slave trade · Slavery · Slaves · Social conditions · Southern states · united states

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