Papers from the first Gilder Lehrman Center international conference held at Yale University in Oct. 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The future store / Walter Johnson -- The domestication of the slave trade in the United States / Adam Rothman -- "We'm fus' rate bargain": value, labor, and price in a Georgia slave community / Diana Ramey Berry -- Slave resistance, coffles, and the debates over slavery in the nation's capital / Robert H. Gudmestad -- The domestic slave trade in America: the lifeblood of the Southern slave system / Steven Deyle -- The interregional slave trade in the history and myth-making of the U.S. South / Michael Tadman -- Reconsidering the internal slave trade: paternalism, markets, and the character of the old South / Lacy Ford -- 'Cuffy', 'fancy maids', and 'one-eyed men': rape, commodification, and the domestic slave trade in the United States / Edward E. Baptist -- Grapevine in the slave market: African American geopolitical literacy and the 1841 Creole Revolt / Phillip Troutman -- The fragmentation of Atlantic slavery and the British intercolonial slave trade / Seymour Drescher -- 'An unfeeling traffick': the intercolonial movement of slaves in the British Caribbean, 1807-1833 / Hilary McD. Beckles -- The Kelsall affair: a black Bahamian family's odyssey in turbulent 1840s Cuba / Manuel Barcia Paz -- Another middle passage? the internal slave trade in Brazil / Richard Graham -- The Brazilian internal slave trade, 1850-1888: regional economies, slave experience, and the politics of a peculiar market / Robert W. Slenes.