Gobbets:

• Ball chs 1 & 2
• Northup ch 6
• Olmsted pp30-40

Questions

How was it possible for an internal slave trade to emerge? How did white southerners view those who traded in slaves? How important was the internal slave trade in the development of the antislavery crusade? What was the prevailing slave attitude towards slave traders and slave trading?

Core Reading

• Johnson, Walter Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market [ebook] Introduction
• Johnson, Walter, 'The slave trader, the white slave and the politics of racial determination in the 1850s' JAH 87 (June 2000) 13-38
• Baptist, Edward E, ' 'Cuffy', 'Fancy maids' and 'one-eyed-men': Rape, commodification and the domestic slave trade in the United States' AHR 106.5 (2001), 1619-1650

E-Resources

• Michael Tadman The Reputation of the Slave Trader in Southern History and the Social Memory of the South American Nineteenth Century History (2007) 247-271
• Baptist, Edward E., '"Stol and Fetched Here": Enslaved Migration, Ex-slave Narratives, and Vernacular History' in Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M.H. Camp (eds.), New Studies in the History of American Slavery, pp. 243-74.  
• Brady, Patrick S., 'The slave trade and sectionalism in South Carolina', JSH, XXXVIII, (1972), 601-620.
• Baptist, Edward, 'The migration of planters to antebellum Florida' JSH 62 (1996), 527-554
• Chaplin, Joyce E., 'Creating a cotton South in Georgia and South Carolina, 1760-1815', JSH, LVII, (1991), 171-200. 
• Chaplin, Joyce E., 'Tidal rice cultivation and the problem of slavery in South Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1815', WMQ, XLIX, (1992), 29-62
• Lightner, David, 'The interstate slave trade in antislavery politics' CWH 36 (1990) 119-136
• Lightner, David, 'The door to the slave Bastille: the abolitionist assault on the interstate slave trade, 1833-1839' CWH 34 (1988) 235-252
• Calderhead, William, 'The professional slave trader in a slave economy: Austin Woolfolk, a case study' CWH 23 (1977) 195-211
• Calderhead, William, 'How extensive was the border state slave trade? A new look' CWH 18 (1972) 42-110
• Pritchett, Jonathan, 'The inter-regional slave trade and the selecton of slaves for the New Orleans market' JIH (1997)

• Freudenberger, Herman & Pritchett, Jonathan, 'The domestic United States Slave trade: New evidence' JIH (1991)

• Follett, Richard. 'Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in Louisiana's Sugar Country,' American Nineteenth Century History, 1 (2000)

Further Reading

• Tadman, Michael, Speculators and slaves: masters, traders and slaves in the old South.
• Bancroft, Frederic Slave trading in the Old South
• C. S. Syndor, Slavery in Mississippi
• Fields, Barbara, Slavery and Freedom on the middle ground, Maryland during the nineteenth century (ch 1 & 2)
• Moody, V A, Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations (pt 1)
• Ransom, Roger, Conflict & compromise (ch 2&3)
• Bassett, J, Slavery in the state of North Carolina
• Oakes, James, The Ruling Race ch 3 [in src]

• Rothman, Adam Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South.