| Abstract: | Steven Deyle’s Carry Me Back demolishes the myths of thedomestic slave trade, replacing images of scheming manstealerswith a comprehensive, yet lucid, account of the human traffic.It does even more than this, however. Its subtitle promisesto discuss the role of the domestic slave trade "in Americanlife," and on this the book fully delivers. The first three chapters of Carry Me Back offer a broad narrativeof the rise and demise of the domestic trade. Deyle argues thatthe trade arose in the years following the American |
