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Walter Johnson examines the fluid nature of the domestic slave trade and its role in shaping a culture of slavery. Central to this culture was the fundamental reality that the slave person was a commodity to be bought and sold as the market demanded. Describe the effects of the practice of slave trading on the actors involved. How did the domestic slave trade help create the identities of the slave, the slaveholder, and the slave trader?
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Analysis Paper 2: Domestic Slave Trade
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Introduction
Domestic slave trade as articulated by Walter Johnson played a significant role in shaping
the slavery culture given that his work ‘Soul by Soul’ is based on the 19th century slave
narratives1. Slave trade was considered a business like any other with an aim of generating
income. Since the implementation of the international trade ban in 18082, the domestic slave
trade became the new venture that ended up forming a significant part of the United States
economy. For this reason, there emerged various slave markets that simply operated by treating
human beings like any other market commodity that can be sold in showrooms as stated by
Johnson (2009) and whose prices vary just like any other commodity on sale3.
The effects of the practice of slave trading on the actors involved
“In the figure of the slave trader were condensed the anxieties of slaveholding society in
the age of capitalist transformation: paternalism overthrown by commodification, honor
corrupted by interest, and dominance infected with...