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America s Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year And Reshaped the Country s Economy Time 2 hrs ago Joshua D. Rothman © Library of Congress The Alexandria slave trading facility once occupied by Franklin and Armfield, as it appeared after its liberation by Union forces during the Civil War. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division The brick townhouse on the north side of Duke Street was a handsome one. Three stories tall with a gable roof, twin chimneys, and blinds on the windows painted a pretty shade of green, it fronted directly onto the crude pavement near the western edge of Alexandria, Va., three-quarters of a mile from the crowded wharves and bustling warehouses clustered along the Potomac River. Duke Street was a busy thoroughfare. To the east, it ended at the river, and to the west it became the Little River Turnpike, a recently completed toll road that connected northern Virginia’s grain and tobacco farms t

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