The Antebellum Slave Market In The Book Soul By Soul

Using evidence and information obtained through slave narratives and slaveholders' letters, Walter Johnson, in the book Soul by Soul depicts life inside the Antebellum slave market. Digging deep into the roots, the meaning, and impact of the slave market, one is brought to realize exactly how the system of slavery affected the history of America. Walter Johnson portrays the slave market through different power relationships existing within the slave market. Slave buyers, slave traders, and slaves, through a need and want to control their own future for the better of themselves, shaped the Antebellum Slave Trade. As a result through mental and physical influence, they were able to manipulate one another. As these points are shown throughout