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Mississippi River watershed showing Cumberland River tributary . Slave trader Jackson would have traveled south from the Cumberland District—now called Nashville and Middle Tennessee—via flatboat, keelboat, or barge, using the Cumberland River to get to the Mississippi River and thence to points south; the return trip from the Natchez District would have been on foot (slaves) or horseback ...
The Native American slave trade in the southeast relied on Native Americans trapping and selling other Natives into slavery; this trade between the colonists and the Native Americans had a profound effect on the shaping and nature of slavery in the Southeast. [1] While Natives enslaved other Natives prior to the contact with the European ...
In New Orleans, most sales were made between September and May. Buyers visited the slave pen and inspected enslaved people prior to the sale. [5] People were held until their means of transportation was arranged. They were transported in groups by boat, walked to their new owners, or a combination of the two. They were moved in groups in a ...
Launched. 1996. Current status. Online. BoatTrader.com is a Miami, Florida -based website in the marine classified segment aimed at the US market launched in 1991. [ 1]
The Interior of South Carolina. A Corn-Shucking. Barnwell District, South Carolina, March 29, 1843" [14] in William Cullen Bryant's Letters from a Traveler, reprinted in The Ottawa Free Trader, Ottawa, Illinois, November 8, 1856 [15] List is organized by surname of trader, or name of firm, where principals have not been further identified.
Wanderer (slave ship) Wanderer. (slave ship) Wanderer in U.S. Navy service during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after being used once in the slave trade and for mercantile trade. Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia ...
Jesse Fish. Jesse Fish (1724 or 1726–1790) was a shipmaster, [1] merchant, and realtor who lived in St. Augustine, Florida under both Spanish and British rule, and is infamous in the town's history to this day. He was a schemer involved in contraband trade and illegal real estate deals, and operated as a slaver, smuggler, and usurer.
James Ladson (1753–1812), lieutenant governor of South Carolina, he enslaved over 100 people in that state. [170] James H. Ladson (1795–1868), businessman and South Carolina planter. [171] Henry Laurens (1724–1792), 5th President of the Continental Congress, his company, Austin and Laurens, was the largest slave-trader in North America. [172]