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Slave ship manifest from the schooner Lafayette
1833
listing a group of eighty-three enslaved people shipped from Alexandria, Virginia
The United States ended the legal importation of slaves in 1808, but enslaved blacks continued to be bought and sold within the country, making the internal slave trade a lucrative business. Historians estimate that as many as one million enslaved people were moved from the eastern United States to the Deep South between 1810 and 1861. |