Soul by Soul, written by Walter Johnson, is an account of life in the New Orleans slave market in the years before the Civil War that leaps from disengaged historical judgment to social and psychological conjecture about the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. The book traces the human history of the slave trade in the United States. The central notion of the book is the slave pen; a sort of jail modified for the …showed first 75 words of 472 total…

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