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Analysis Of Soul By Soul: Life Inside The Antebellum Slave Market

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Of all the aspects of history, the one that humankind would love to forget is the enslavement of one culture by another. Since the beginning of civilization, there has been slavery, but the suffrage of the African-American slave was different. Walter Johnson, Professor of American history at Harvard has authored an insightful explanation of slavery in the United States entitled “Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market”. Johnson focuses attention on the New Orleans slave trade market, providing a human element to this inhumane activity.
As interpreted by Johnson, slaves were reduced to nothing more than money. Regardless of their circumstances, whether they were currently owned or being sold their lives boiled down to a dollar
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