| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven Deyle. Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 398. $29.95.
Over the last decade or so there has been—at least relative to the scattered shots of the preceding eighty years—a positively rippling volley of works focused on the internal slave trade of the United States. It was about time. For in the nineteenth century, the "domestic" slave trade moved over half a million enslaved African Americans from the older South to the newer, enabling the cotton South's growth—and that of the economy of the antebellum United States. Financing and managing it required vast quantities of cash and credit, as well as a variety of financial instruments and institutions. It shaped the politics of region and nation in ways that historians are only now discovering, and it structured the cultures of white and black Americans in ways that still affect us today. Its human costs were tremendous. Virtually every antebellum enslaved African American lost close relatives to the slave trade's relentless hunger, and as ex-slaves' narratives tell us over and over again, forced separation was one of the two or three most iterrifying aspects of slavery.	1
Yet the domestic slave trade remained, for the most part, a history oddly absent from the grand histories of slavery. Try to find it in Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974), for instance. At last, with Michael Tadman, Walter Johnson, Robert Gudmestad, Ira Berlin, and the forthcoming work of Phillip Troutman, scholars have begun to tackle the many implications of this vast and complex process. Steven Deyle's book is, in many ways, the most comprehensive in this whole salvo of excellent studies.	. . .

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