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
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that prohibits the importation of slaves into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date p
Slave trade in the United States
…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 locally afterwards…
Manifest of the coastwise slaver brig Porpoise, departing Baltimore for New Orleans in 1841, with all parties attesting that none of the enslaved people aboard had been "imported into the United States since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight"
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into Any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the U.S. From and After Jan. 1, 1808 (NAID 7873517)
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