The Trade Domestic slave trade was a significant episode before the civil war. It was a form of forced labor. The development of an extensive local trade meant that the domestic trade was a prominent and visible feature of southern life and for anything other than the south such as the North, it raised troubling questions and shaped their opinions and impressions on the region. A British abolitionist In the book Joseph Sturge confided that, “business was necessary to the system of slavery, and an essential part of it; and if salve-holding were to be justified at all, the slave-trade would be also,” in agreeance with a slave trader. Steven Deyle’s book “Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life”, talks about the trade and how it played a fundamental role in Antebellum American Society as well as the development of an extensive local trade and how the commerce in slaves was not only central to the southern economy or identity but to all American Life.
Main Ideas: Carry Me Back…show more content… Towards the end of the book, the central idea branches out into the effects of the trade as well. Deyle highlights the part of national, regional and local political debates that were caused by the trade. Some of these arguments were centralized around questions such as, “If it’s morally wrong,” or if there are alternatives to the trade, and, “How the Africans suffered greatly from being removed from their homeland,” or how, “the trade was damaging to Africa.” These debates also had relevance to the abolitionist attacks on slavery down the road. Deyle also highlights the overall effect of trade for the southern black and whites. Some of the main people throughout this time, and their attributions and significance, such as Werner Mifflin, John Adams, Pierce Butler,
