Here is where becomes a history of American fear.
In the decade following Turner’s death, the internal slave trade to the sugar houses of Louisiana reached its zenith. Over 100,000 Virginians were sold "down the river" to places like Toni Sweets. They were worked literally to death. The sugar bowl of America became, in historian Walter Johnson’s phrase, "a charnel house of capitalism." toni sweets a brief american history with nat turner
. If we look at history through the eyes of the marginalized, we see that the "Toni Sweets" of the world weren't just witnesses; they were the heartbeat of a community that survived the unthinkable. Here is where becomes a history of American fear