Sold Down the River : Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0817360751
ISBN-13
9780817360757
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New
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
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The University of Alabama Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2022
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
442 grams
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23.40 x 15.60 x 2.30 cms
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Slavery & abolition of slaverySlavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery
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Examines a microcosm of slavery as it was experienced in an archetypical southern locale through its effect on individual people, as much as can be determined from primary sources.
Examines a small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia
In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States of America and then the Confederate States of America. The expansion and concentration of slavery into what became the Confederacy in 1861 was arguably the most momentous development after nationhood itself in the early history of the American republic.
In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which reshaped existing societies and helped build new ones. From small beginnings, slavery in North America expanded until it furnished the foundation for two extraordinarily rich and powerful slave societies, the United States of America and then the Confederate States of America. The expansion and concentration of slavery into what became the Confederacy in 1861 was arguably the most momentous development after nationhood itself in the early history of the American republic.
This book examines a relatively small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia. Although geographically at the heart of Dixie, the valley was among the youngest parts of the Old South; only thirty-seven years separate the founding of Columbus, Georgia, and the collapse of the Confederacy. In those years, the area was overrun by a slave society characterized by astonishing demographic, territorial, and economic expansion. Valley counties of Georgia and Alabama became places where everything had its price, and where property rights in enslaved persons formed the basis of economic activity. Sold Down the River examines a microcosm of slavery as it was experienced in an archetypical southern locale through its effect on individual people, as much as can be determined from primary sources.
Published in cooperation with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Troup County Historical Society.
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