These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States ... The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); the figures cited above are from page 289.

Several major American universities have made efforts in the past year to acknowledge their historical ties to slavery, digging into their archives and publishing reports on the various ways their ...

Although the importation of slaves was outlawed in 1807, the domestic slave trade remained a major economic establishment in America until the Civil War. Before its retrocession to Virginia, the city ...

Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed in Episode 2 of Slate’s History of ...

The blockade of the Confederate ports by the Federal ships in 1861 ended slave smuggling. This sketch of the American slave trade, while deeply interesting, can hardly be considered a complete ...

The slave trade devastated African life. Culture and traditions were torn asunder, as families, especially young men, were abducted. Guns were introduced and slave raids and even wars increased.

Creator of Shockoe slavery map blasts city over use ... Mayor Jones and their cohorts to cease and desist using my preliminary map of the slave trade district,” Kambourian wrote.

MarketWatch.com A Juneteenth wake-up call — how the slave trade shaped U.S. policing: ‘America just really needs to start being honest’ MarketWatch spoke with Luke Frederick, a Ph.D ...

the uss constellation is a fixture in baltimore’s inner harbor. hundreds of people pass by it every day. most have no idea the role it played in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

Those who make this argument point to the lucrative cotton manufacturing and trade in the 19th century—the industry in which black slaves were primarily used in the American South.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade lasted for more than 400 ... Though historians cite 1619 as the start of slavery in America—when 20 Africans arrived to Virginia on a Dutch ship—the slave trade ...