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      The Price They Paid

      Jeff Forret

      A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America-ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves

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      Slavery in the United States

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      Examines numerous controversies related to the history of slavery, including slavery and the American Revolution, the Constitution and Bible as pro- or antislavery documents, the transatlantic slave trade, colonization of…

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      Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South

      Jeff Forret

      In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity.

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      Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside

      Jeff Forret

      Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and under-reported…

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      Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside

      Jeff Forret

      Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and under-reported…

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      Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South

      Jeff Forret

      Challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary…

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      Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts

      Jeff Forret (Lamar University, Texas)

      Williams’ Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data…

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      Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts

      Jeff Forret (Lamar University, Texas)

      Williams’ Gang explores a Washington, DC slave trader’s legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans. Drawing on court records, newspapers, governors’ files, slave narratives, and penitentiary data…

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      New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison

      Enrico Dal Lago,Calvin Schermerhorn,Karen Ryder

      In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes - commodification, community, and…

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      Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century

      Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available…

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