This is the final installment of a four-part series examining the transatlantic slave trade through the archival records of the system itself. In the first three parts, enslaved African ancestors were reduced to mere ledger entries, cargo, property, and compensation claims on the pages of slave trading logs, auction circulars, and 37 volumes of plantation management records. This concluding chapter begins with a different kind of document: a land deed that changed the story of freedom when it changed hands on August 1.
OP-ED: The business of slavery From Africa to the New World, Part 4 -The counter-ledger
