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This list represents a fraction of the "many hundreds of participants in a cruel and omnipresent" American market. [12] "Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell ...
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...
List of slave traders of the United States; List of District of Columbia slave traders; List of Georgia and Florida slave traders; List of Kentucky slave traders; List of Maryland and Delaware slave traders; List of Missouri slave traders; Family separation in American slavery; List of largest slave sales in the United States; Movement to ...
Cyane seized four American slave ships in her first year on station. Trenchard developed a good level of co-operation with the Royal Navy. Four additional U.S. warships were sent to the African coast in 1820 and 1821. A total of 11 American slave ships were taken by the U.S. Navy over this period. Then American enforcement activity reduced.
Samuel Benedict (1792–1854), born an African-American slave, later became free and emigrated to Liberia, where he became a politician and judge. [ 188 ] Samuel Green (c. 1802–1877), an enslaved man who bought his freedom and freedom for his loved ones, was involved with the Underground Railroad , and was jailed in 1857 for carrying a copy ...
While American Black people celebrated this as a victory in the fight against slavery, the ban increased the internal trade in enslaved people. Changing agricultural practices in the Upper South from tobacco to mixed farming decreased labor requirements, and enslaved people were sold to traders for the developing Deep South.
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the number of slaves transported across state lines increased by 85%, reaching the point where white people forced the migration of nearly thirty thousand enslaved ...
Articles related to American slave traders, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the Confederate States of America in 1865.