Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest scattered locally and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance local and urban slave migrants it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated reacted to and experienced forced removal as well as how they adapted to their new homes.