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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):220-222; doi:10.1093/es/khn017
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 398 pp. ISBN 019-5160401, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 019-5310195, $19.95 (paper)

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Steven Deyle’s Carry Me Back demolishes the myths of the domestic slave trade, replacing images of scheming manstealers with a comprehensive, yet lucid, account of the human traffic. It does even more than this, however. Its subtitle promises to discuss the role of the domestic slave trade "in American life," and on this the book fully delivers.

The first three chapters of Carry Me Back offer a broad narrative of the rise and demise of the domestic trade. Deyle argues that the trade arose in the years following the American . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Patrick Rael

Bowdoin College


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