| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. xvi, 246 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-2884-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8071-2922-4.)

Such fine books as Michael Tadman's Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989) and Walter Johnson's Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) have taught us a great deal about the grisly workings of the domestic slave trade. Although one would not guess it from the title, this new monograph by Robert H. Gudmestad has a different focus. It deals primarily not with the slave trade itself, but rather with how the trade was perceived by white southerners. Gudmestad analyzes how southerners reacted to the emergence of interstate slave trafficking, how they coped with its growing impact, and how they became reconciled to it through a curious process of denial, obfuscation, and scapegoating.

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