Every year, people get very excited about Norfolk’s Harborfest. But for years some have chosen not to attend because of a belief that it celebrates the slave trade in our area.
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Congress banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808. But the domestic slave trade trading humans within the nation’s borders, dubbed “the Second Middle Passage” continued through the Civil War and is much less discussed in American history. The Norfolk region sent more than 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans more than any other port, according to the new research of a Slover librarian.
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