Bernard Moore Campbell and Walter L. Campbell operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South. B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H.
"Negroes Wanted" for the interstate slave trade (The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 14, 1843)
"Negroes for Sale", Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, April 26, 1845.
Gassaway may have been trafficked from Maryland to South Carolina by the Campbells via an agent named McDaniel ("Brought to the Jail" Edgefield Advertiser, February 28, 1849).
"Local Matters" (The Baltimore Sun, June 2, 1862).
The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was the mercantile trade of enslaved people within t
When interviewed in 1913 by Myra Williams Jarrell for the Topeka Star, Emily Ford and Mary Shawn of Burlingame, Kansas, recalled an instance of family separation in American slavery due to the slave trade
"AUCTION & NEGRO SALES": Black man in Union uniform reading in front of the Crawford, Frazer & Co. slave market at 8 Whitehall Street, photographed by George N. Barnard during the Atlanta campaign, 1864 (Library of Congress Digital)
Partial manifest of a coastwise slave shipment made from Baltimore to New Orleans, by Hope H. Slatter, on the ship Scotia, September 1843
Commerce and transportation in Montgomery, Alabama, 1859