Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Audiobook (Free)

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by leaving the cotton plantations and into the slave marketplace itself, the heart of the local slave trade. Acquiring us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 guys, women, and kids were packaged, priced, and offered, Walter Johnson transforms the figures of this chilling trade in to the human drama of investors, buyers, and slaves, negotiating product sales that would alter the life of every. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading however the vast and unexpected interdependencies among the actors involved.