Before the Civil war and the disagreements with the South, the slave trade was alive and well in New England. The slave trade was dominated by the maritime industry. Rhode Island was responsible for more than half of all of the early US slave trade.
In West African cultures, only certain classes of people could be slaves, while in the Atlantic slave trade, anyone could be captured and become a slave.
In West African cultures, only certain classes of people could be slaves, while in the Atlantic slave trade, anyone could be captured and become a slave.
slave trade
Commerce and slave trade compromise
Slave families were split up and sold as part of the domestic slave trade.
the slave trade was abolished in 1807.
After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was declared illegal and later eliminated, it was replaced by legitimate trade (non-slave trade).
slaves hence the name Atlantic SLAVE trade
Slave families were split up
Slave families were split up
Slave families were split up