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Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
University of Alabama Press, 2023 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8566-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1741-6 | Paper: 978-0-8173-6075-7 Library of Congress Classification E445.A3C37 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.36209758
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. 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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Sold Down the River: Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Alabama Press, 2023
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8566-8
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1741-6
Paper: 978-0-8173-6075-7
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8566-8
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1741-6
Paper: 978-0-8173-6075-7
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
