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February 29, 2012 | History

Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane - Inside the Slave Trade 1 edition

By Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker
Cover of: Savannah by Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker

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Savannah, Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane is the second book in the four-part Civil War Savannah Series. Filled with a great deal of original research, documented business transactions, and individual biographical profiles and stories, this is one of the more unusual books on American slavery to come along in some time. Specifically, it takes a very in-depth look at slavery as a functional but flawed business model in which ordinary citizens participated in one way or another on a daily basis. Yet it also goes beyond this to provide extraordinary stories of men and women who repeatedly risked their lives to escape slavery and in the process rewrote American history.

Like the first book in this series, Savannah, Immortal City, volume two is filled as well with the exceptional historical photography of Cindy Wallace. Also like the first, this is intended as a commemoration of the ongoing observations of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The noted author and editor Aberjhani is identified in both volumes as the "editor-in-chief."

Subjects
American Slavery, African Americans, Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker, Aberjhani, Savannah, Georgia, tourism, American Civil War, race relations, American South, 19th Century
People
Susie King Taylor, Pierce Butler, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, General William T. Sherman, Anthony Odingsells
Places
Savannah, Georgia, Boston, Canada, Washington D.C.
Times
1850s-1860s

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Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane - Inside the Slave Trade

Published 2012 by Emerald Books in Austin, TX .

Table of Contents

Savannah: Brokers Bankers and B ay Lane
Table of Contents
The Civil War Savannah Series ........................................................ ix
Acknowledgments .................................................................xiii
About Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xv
Savannah’s Role in the Slave Trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1) Slavery in Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2) Thriving Business in a Booming Town ..........................................16
The City Takes Its Cut
3) Banks and Slave Brokers Map circa 1860. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
4) Twilight Zone between Servitude and Freedom .................................37
Uneven Economic Cycles
5) Bay Lane: The Heart of Savannah’s Slave–Trading District. . . . . . . . . . .46
Broker Business Cards
6) City Market Area and Slave Trading. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Slave Marts and Negro Yards
Brokers at the Bottom of the Food Chain
7) Collateral Beneficiaries: Bankers, Lawyers, Notaries, Doctors, and Others .......91
8) Religion, Slavery, and Public Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
9) Broker Houses Still Standing in Savannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
10) The Day After .................................................................128
11) Tears Flowed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
12) Life Incidents Related to Slavery in Savannah (Part 1):. . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Processed through Wright’s Yard: Jane and Her Family
13) The Wanderer Trial: Reopening the African Slave Trade. . . . . . . . . . .141
Site Map of Wanderer Trial Events
14) Life Incidents Related to Slavery in Savannah (Part 2). . . . . . . . . . . . .161
The Weeping Time: The Sale of Pierce Butler’s Slaves
The Story of Susie King Taylor
Anthony Odingsells and Savannah’s Biracial Population
15) Fugitive Slave Act—The Stories of Thomas Sims and William Grimes. . . . . . . . . .180
16) The Incredible Journey of the Slave Patrick Snead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
Epilogue: Manigault’s Epiphany ....................................................203
Appendices:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
A. In the Footsteps of Slavery
B. Sites Related to African Slavery in Savannah Requiring Historic
Markers
Sources and Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
Notes ..............................................................................222
Index ..............................................................................241

Contributors

  • Editor
    Aberjhani

ID Numbers

Open Library
 OL25224836M
ISBN 13
 9781934572696

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