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pn89d50750n	Benjamin Lewis Fitzpatrick	Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky	2010		.txt	text/plain	175	5	36	This study of slave speculation in Kentucky expands our existing definition of slave trading in the antebellum South to include the practices of slave hiring and slave catching and also reveals how the speculation in human beings affected the potency of antislavery movements in the Upper South. I argue that instead of slavery declining in Kentucky during the antebellum period, the state's system of intrastate slave speculation, which included the practices of slave hiring and slave catching, provided Bluegrass masters with a profitable and flexible system of circulating enslaved black labor throughout communities and within the state.	cache/pn89d50750n.txt	txt/pn89d50750n.txt