Carry me back: the domestic slave trade in American life

1. irony of liberty : origins of the domestic slave trade

2. most important form of commerce : the rise of the cotton kingdom

3. most fateful form of commerce : the fall of the cotton kingdom

4. "Cash for negroes" : slave traders and the market revolution in the South

5. regular part of everyday life : the buying and selling of human property

6. Outside looking in : the domestic slave trade and the abolitionist attack on slavery

7. Inside looking out : the slave trade's effect upon the white South

8. "The nastiness of life" : African-American resistance to the domestic slave trade

App. A. Total slave migration, 1820-1860, and percentage of migration attributable to the interregional slave trade

App. B. Estimated number of local slave sales and total number of southern slave sales, 1820-1860.