Book Recommendation - 19th Century Antebellum America

[ToomuchLes]

I looking for books about 19th century slave politics concerning two disparate themes. The first is I'd like to read more about the slave trade in the U.S after 1808, when Congress prohibited the importation of slaves. I already have a few books regarding this topic such as Carry Me Back, by Deyle and American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan, but unfortunately not many. The second theme that I'd like to read more of is anything concerning child slavery in the South in the 19th century. One of my professors, Clarence Walker, mentioned the marginal amount of literature about this topic, so if you have a book that discusses child slavery before the 19th century, I'll gladly look into it =)

 

Many thanks!

Edited May 13, 2014 by LeventeL

[Riotbeard]

Child slavery very very little, as far as I know.  I have a friend working on Childhood on the plantation (black and white), and from what I hear it is an absolute nightmare!

 

Slave trade:

Walter Johnson.  Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (a personal favorite book of mine)

I think Johnson's new book also deals with this a lot too

Edmund Drago. "Broke by the War": Letters of a Slave Trader

Robert Gumestad.  A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade

 

You might also be interested in articles about the Creole revolt.  An interstate slaveship in which a mutiny resulted in the freedom of the slaves.  Walter Johnson has an article on it called "white Lies" can't remember the subtitle.

Johnson also edited a volume about the interstate trade called The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas.

 

Searching Amazon with "Interstate slave trade" also yielded a lot of other books.

 

Good luck.

[ToomuchLes]

Appreciate it, Riotbeard. I'll look into these books. =)