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African American history
African American history in the Deep South
American slavery
American social history
Antebellum South
Anthony Gene Carey
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Civil War era social history
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historical injustice
Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Lower Chattahoochee Valley history
nineteenth-century America
plantation economy
Plantation economy and expansion
plantation labor systems
race and slavery
slave markets
slave sales
Slave trade routes and patterns
slavery in alabama
Slavery in Alabama and Georgia
slavery in Georgia
Sold Down the River
Southern history
Southern slavery studies
United States history
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- ISBN 9780817360757
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 151 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2022
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Anthony Gene Carey is vice provost for faculty affairs and a professor of history at Appalachian State University and author of Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia. He has received the 2012 Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History
