Slave trade in the United States
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Slave trade in the United States
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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 the United States. It was most significant after 1808, when the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited by federal law. Historians estimate that upwards of one million slaves were forcibly relocated from the Upper South, places like Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_trade_in_the_United_States
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2005-12-15T19:35:40Z
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2024-09-05T08:44:06Z
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