questionIn his book “Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market” Walter Johnson examines the fluidity of the domestic slave trade and its role in shaping a culture of slavery.

In his book “Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market” Walter Johnson examines the fluidity of the domestic slave trade and its role in shaping a culture of slavery. Central to this was the reality that the slave was a commodity to …