Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
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| Anteprima |
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.
