The Brutal Trade In Enslaved People Within The US Has Been Largely Whitewashed Out Of History
For my recently published book, “The Ledger and the Chain,” I visited more than 30 archives in over a dozen …
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Joshua D. Rothman is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861 (2003), Reforming America, 1815–1860 (2009), and Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson (2012). His most recent book is The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (2021).
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For my recently published book, “The Ledger and the Chain,” I visited more than 30 archives in over a dozen …