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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(3):525-527; doi:10.1093/es/khi074
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Robert H. Gudmestad. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xii + 246 pp. ISBN 0-8071-2884-8, $59.95 (cloth); 0-8071-2922-4, $21.95 (paper).

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From the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe to J. T. Randolph, slave traders stalked the pages of antebellum fiction and antislavery literature. Yet of the many facets of slavery that scholars have examined in the past three decades, the one topic that has been consistently understudied has been the internal slave trade. Compared with other subjects deemed worthy of monographs—from slave religiosity to rebelliousness to family structure—the internal traffic in humans of the early to mid-nineteenth century has been curiously ignored. The few exceptions include . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Douglas R. Egerton

Le Moyne College


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