nds when dealing with slavery in this period of history. We will categorize these people as the slave buyers and the slave traders for the time being. In order to understand the relationship in which these people empowered over the slaves one must understand how they directly affected each other:
             Were slave sales, as so many slave holders insisted, the unfortunate results of untimely deaths, unavoidable debts, unforeseeable circumstances, and understandable punishments, or were they, as so many slaves felt, the natural, inevitable, and predictable result of a system that treated people as property? (Soul by Soul 29).
             From this one can see that these two peoples similar experiences had the same outcome, but thought of the process occurring differently. This relationship soon narrows and becomes much more specific as Walter Johnson describes the relationships
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