(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market I’ve just completed reading the best book ever about understanding slavery. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) isn’t a new book, but it’s a classic. The author, Walter Johnson, brilliantly examines the slave market in New Orleans, the largest in North America during the nineteenth-century. Through exhaustive research using … [Read more...] about Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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The Antebellum “Persac Map” of 1858
(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) The Antebellum "Persac Map" of 1858 Can you love history? Am I exaggerating when I say, I do? I especially enjoy learning about history and seeing how events connect with one another. If you’re my age, you can remember traveling cross-country by automobile with your parents (or parent) on interstate highways. When we stopped for gasoline at service stations, we used the bathroom, and sometimes we’d pick up … [Read more...] about The Antebellum “Persac Map” of 1858
