Carry Me Back

The domestic slave trade, born with the nation itself, quickly eclipsed external traffic to become a vibrant interregional commerce. Transforming human beings into the country's most valuable investment after land, this burgeoning trade generated immense wealth while simultaneously tearing the nation apart, directly contributing to the Civil War. A central force in antebellum American society and the market revolution, the trade, driven by professional traders, permeated Southern life. Yet, it raised deep moral and social questions, shaping Northern views, proving the most difficult aspect for slaveholders to defend, and igniting fierce resistance among the enslaved. *Carry Me Back* restores the domestic slave trade to its deserved prominence in early American history, unraveling the complex realities of Southern slavery and antebellum American life.

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