(16) The Founders' Constitution,ed.Philip Kurland and Ralph Lerner(Chicago,1987),3:280.
(17) Founders'Constitution,3: 279—281.Cf.George Van Cleve,A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery,Politics,and the Constitution in the Early American Republic(Chicago,2010).
(18) Hazel Dicken-Garcia,To Western Woods: The Breckinridge Family Moves to Kentucky in 1793(Rutherford,NJ,1991); 177—178; CHSUS,1: Aa3644—3744.
(19) Aron,How the West Was Lost,82—95; Frederika Teute,“Land,Liberty,and Labor in the Post-Revolutionary Era: Kentucky as the Promised Land”(PhD diss.,Johns Hopkins University,1988),102—130,185,227—275; Watlington,Partisan Spirit,220—222; David Rice,Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy; Proved by a Speech Delivered in the Convention,Held at Danville,Kentucky(Philadelphia,1792); John Craig Hammond,Slavery,Freedom,and Expansion in the Early American West(Charlottesville,VA,2007); John Craig Hammond,“Slavery,Settlement,and Empire: The Expansion and Growth of Slavery in the Interior of the North American Continent,1770—1820,”JER 32,no.2(2012): 175—206.
(20) Dicken-Garcia,To Western Woods,177—178; Marion Nelson Winship,“Kentucky in the New Republic: A Study of Distance and Connection,” in Craig Thompson Friend,ed.,Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land(Lexington,KY,1998),100—123; Gail S.Terry,“Sustaining the Bonds of Kinship in a Trans-Appalachian Migration: The Cabell-Breckinridge Slaves Move West,”Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102(1994): 455—476.
(21) Francis Fedric,Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky,Or,Fifty Years of Slavery…(London,1853),15.
(22) Terry,“Sustaining the Bonds of Kinship,”465—466.
(23) Fedric,Slave Life,15—17; Dicken-Garcia,To Western Woods,116—118,173; Daniel Drake,Pioneer Life in Kentucky: A Series of Reminiscential Letters(Cincinnati,1870),176—177.
(24) Fedric,Slave Life,16; Washington(PA)Herald of Liberty,September 2,1799.
(25) Stanley Harrold,Border War: Fighting over Slavery Before the Civil War(Chapel Hill,NC,2010); Philadelphia Advertiser,February 17,1792.
(26) William Hayden,Narrative of William Hayden,Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for Many Years Whilst a Slave(Cincinnati,1846),20—26; Teute,“Land,Liberty,and Labor,”209—210.
(27) Teute,“Land,Liberty,and Labor,”212; Monica Najar,“‘Meddling with Emancipation’: Baptists,Authority,and the Rift over Slavery in the Upper South,”JER 25,no.2(2005): 157—186.
(28) Barbara Fields,Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland During the Nineteenth Century(New Haven,CT,1985); Seth Rockman,Scraping By: Wage Labor,Slavery,and Survival in Early Baltimore(Baltimore,2009); Max Grivno,Gleaning's of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line,1790—1860(Urbana,IL,2011); Jennifer Hull Dorsey,Hirelings: African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland(Ithaca,NY,2011); US Bureau of the Census,Negro Population,1790—1815(Washington,DC,1918),57.
(29) Ball,Slavery in the United States,36.
(30) Leonard Black,The Life and Suffering's of Leonard Black,a Fugitive from Slavery(New Bedford,CT,1847),24—26; Ball,Slavery in the United States,15—18; Thomas Culbreth to Gov.Maryland,February 21,1824,818—819,in “Estimates of the Value of Slaves,1815,”AHR 19(1914): 813—838.
(31) David Smith,Biography of the Rev. David E. Smith of the A. M. E. Church(Xenia,OH,1881),11—14; William Grimes,Life of William Grimes,Written by Himself(New York,1825),22; cf.Abraham Johnstone,The Address of Abraham Johnstone,a Black Man Who Was Hanged at Woodbury,N.J.(Philadelphia,1797); Michael Tadman,“The Hidden History of Slave-Trading in Antebellum South Carolina: John Springs III and Other ‘Gentlemen Dealing in Slaves,’”South Carolina Historical Magazine 97(1996): 6—29,esp.22.For the complex origins of the cotton gin,see Joyce Chaplin,An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South,1730—1815(Chapel Hill,NC,2013); Angela Lakwete,Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America(Baltimore,2003).
(32) Cf.New York Advertiser,September 24,1790.
(33) “Charleston”from Pennsylvania Packet,February 25,1790; C.Peter Magrath,Yazoo: Law and Politics in the New Republic: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck(Providence,RI,1966),2—5.
(34) Jane Kamensky,The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse(New York,2008); “Charleston” from Pennsylvania Packet,February 25,1790.
(35) Shaw Livermore,“Early American Land Companies: Their Influence on Corporate Development”(PhD diss.,Columbia University,1939).
(36) Magrath,Yazoo,6—19; Kamensky,Exchange Artist,35—36.
(37) John Losson to John Smith,1786,Pocket Plantation Papers,RASP.Series E.
(38) G.Melvin Herndon,“Samuel Edward Butler of Virginia Goes to Georgia,1784,”GHQ 52(1968): 115—131,esp.123; “The Diary of Samuel E.Butler,1784—1786,and the Inventory and Appraisement of his Estate,”ed.G.Melvin Herndon,GHQ 52(1968): 208—209,214—215; Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790(Washington,DC,1908),32; Grimes,Life,25; Cf.Thomas Johnson,Africa for Christ: Twenty Eight Years a Slave(London,1892),10—11; Moses Grandy,Life of Moses Grandy,Late a Slave in the United States of America(Boston,1844),55—56; Hayden,Narrative,57—59; Julius Melbourn,Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn(Syracuse,NY,1847),9—10; James Pennington,The Fugitive Blacksmith(London,1849),vi,24,82; James Watkins,Narrative of the Life of James Watkins,Formerly a“Chattel”in Maryland(Bolton,UK,1852),26; Lewis Charlton,Sketches of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton(Portland,ME,n.d.),1; James Williams,Life and Adventures of James Williams,a Fugitive Slave(San Francisco,1873),11.
(39) For definition of “coffle,”see Oxford English Dictionary Online,[domain].
(40) James Kirke Paulding,Letters from the South,Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816(New York,1817),126—127.
(41) Grimes,Life,22; Alexandria Gazette,June 22,1827; Damian Alan Pargas,“The Gathering Storm: Slave Responses to the Threat of Interregional Migration in the Early Nineteenth Century,”Journal of Early American History 2,no.3(2012): 286—315; Frederic Bancroft,Slave-Trading in the Old South(Baltimore,1931),23—24 Some of the chains were literally repurposed from Atlantic slave-trading vessels.See Gardner,Dean,to Phillips,Gardner,April 10,1807,Slavery Collection,NYHS.
(42) New Hampshire Gazette,October 13,1801; Alexandria Times,January 10,1800.
(43) ASAI,69—70; John Brown,Slave Life in Georgia(London,1855),17—18.
(44) Parker Autobiography,Rankin-Parker Papers,Duke; “Aaron,”The Light and Truth of Slavery(Springfield,MA,1845).
(45) Matthew Mason,Slavery and Politics in the Early American Republic(Chapel Hill,NC,2006); John C.Hammond and Matthew Mason,eds.,Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation(Charlottesville,VA,2011).
(46) Jesse Torrey,A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States(Philadelphia,1817),39—40,33—34.
(47) Jesse Torrey,American Slave-Trade(London,1822),66—71.
(48) Robert Goodloe Harper,The Case of the Georgia Sales Reconsidered(Philadelphia,1797); Abraham Bishop,The Georgia Speculation Unveiled(Hartford,CT,1797).
(49) “Charleston” from Pennsylvania Packet,February 25,1790.
(50) Thomas Hart Benton,Abridgement of the Debates of Congress,from 1798 to 1856,223(March 1798).
(51) Magrath,Yazoo,34—35.
(52) Klein,Unification,252—254; John Cummings and Joseph A Hill,Negro Population 1790—1915(Washington,1918),45,available at [domain]; Watson Jennison,Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia,1750—1860(Lexington,KY,2012).
(53) NR,September 29,1821; Gerald T.Dunne,“Bushrod Washington and the Mount Vernon Slaves,”Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook(1980); Robert Gudmestad,A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade(Baton Rouge,LA,2003),6—8.
(54) Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes,April 22,1820; Founders’ Constitution,1: 156; Jefferson,Notes on the State of Virginia,264.
(55) NR,September 1,1821.
(56) Ball,Slavery in the United States,86—91.
第2章
(1) Benjamin Latrobe,Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary and Sketches,1818—1820,ed.Samuel Wilson Jr.(New York,1951),13—14; Frances Trollope,Domestic Manners of the Americans,ed.Pamela Neville-Sington(repr.London,1997),9—11; John Pintard to Sec.Treasury,September 14,1803,TP,9: 52—53.Cf.Amos Stoddard,Historical Sketches of Louisiana(Philadelphia,1812),159—160; James Pearse,Narrative of the Life of James Pearse(Rutland,VT,c.1826),16; H.Bellenden Ker,Travels Through the Western Interior of the United States(Elizabethtown,NJ,1816),36; Pierre-Louis Berquin-Duvallon,trans.John Davis,Travels in Louisiana and Florida in the Year 1802(New York,1806),8.
(2) TASTD; James McMillin,The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America,1783—1810(Columbia,SC,2004),23; Stephen Behrendt,David Eltis,and David Richardson,“The Costs of Coercion: African Agency in the Pre-Modern Atlantic World,”Economic History Review(n.s.)54,no.3(2001): 454—476.
(3) Approval Alex.Clark,Bill of Lading,March 9,1807,Reel 1,Inward Manifests,New Orleans,RG 36,NA; John Lambert,Travels Through Canada and the United States of America,In the Years 1806,1807,and 1808(London,1816),2: 166.
(4) David Eltis,The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas(New York,2000); Jo-seph C.Miller,Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade(Madison,WI,1988); Robin C.Blackburn,Origins of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern,1492—1800(London,1997).
(5) Sidney Mintz,Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History(New York,1985); Stuart Schwartz,Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia,1550—1835(New York,1985).
(6) M.L.E.Moreau de St.Méry,Description topographique,physique,civile,politique et historique de la partie francaise de l'isle Saint-Domingue … 2 vols.(Paris,1797); Antonio Benitez-Rojo,The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective,trans.James Maraniss(Durham,NC,1992).
(7) Mintz,Sweetness and Power; Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik,The World That Trade Created: Society,Culture,and the World Economy,1400 to the Present,2nd ed.(Armonk,NY,2000); Kenneth C.Pomeranz,The Great Divergence: China,Europe,and the Making of the Modern World Economy(Berkeley,CA,2000),31—68; David Eltis,“Nutritional Trends in Africa and the Americas: Heights of Africans,1819—1839,”Journal of Interdisciplinary History 12(1982): 453—475.
(8) Berquin-Duvallon,Travels in Louisiana,35—37.


