Book : The Ledger And The Chain How Domestic Slave Traders..

-Titulo Original : The Ledger And The Chain How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

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An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of Americas internal slave trade-and its role in the making of America.Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men-who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South-were essential to slaverys expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States.In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history. Far from social outcasts, they were rich and widely respected businessmen, and their company sat at the center of capital flows connecting southern fields to northeastern banks. Bringing together entrepreneurial ambition and remorseless violence toward enslaved people, domestic slave traders produced an atrocity that forever transformed the nation. Review A searing account of the reprehensible life’s work of Franklin and his remorseless business associates. Other scholars have produced accounts of the domestic slave trade. Mr. Rothman writes about slave traders, and puts an indelible face on their inhumanity. Wall Street JournalAccounts of American slavery often overlook the central role of the traders who profited. Rothman’s history focuses on three of the biggest.” New York Times Book Review“Powerful … Rothman confounds the stereotype of the slave trader as scrappy outsider… [and] brilliantly captures the grotesque collision of dehumanization and sentimentality that shaped the worlds of Franklin and his associates.” New York Review of Books“Tremendous…[The Ledger and the Chain] intertwines a careful biography of a very successful business with unflinching attention to the monstrosity that business was built upon.” Slate“Slave traders aren’t often called out by name, and therefore are subjected to little accountability. But Rothman shines a light on how these human traffickers were responsible for crimes against humanity, the sale of over half a million enslaved people among them.” FortuneAmazing, disturbing…a stunning, unsettling account of a guilt shared more widely and more enthusiastically than many Americans like to think.” Christian Science Monitor“Harrowing… Rothman’s searing reportage makes it glaringly clear just how pervasive and profound the legacy of slavery has been and is to the American way of life.” Seattle Times“In popular culture, we’ve cast slave traders at social pariahs but Joshua Rothman’s book refutes that whitewashed narrative. In many ways, slave traders were celebrated businessmen and he traces the stories of three of the biggest slave traders to show how much the economies of the South and the North relied on America’s original sin.” Reckon“A riveting narrative, formidably documented and written with quiet fury… brilliant. Times Literary Supplement“An argument that is sure to push the literature on the slave trade in new directions… an incisive analysis that should be essential reading.” Journal of Southern HistoryRothman employs his wide breadth of knowledge about the era to vividly depict the human and economic impacts of the domestic slave trade as it burgeoned in the early 19th century...An excellent work of vast research that hauntingly delineates the ‘intimate daily savageries of the slave trade. KirkusThrough meticulous archival research, Rothman debunks the myth that slave traders were social outcasts and tracks how their brazen advertisements and abusive treatment of captive men, women, and children were used by abolitionists to stoke public outrage. This trenchant study deserves a wide and impassioned readership.” Publishers WeeklyWide ranging and meticulously documented...A must read account that sheds light on the interdependence of slavery