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Slave Trade, Eyre Crowe s Images of the – Encyclopedia Virginia

Slave Trade, Eyre Crowe s Images of the – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Slave traders may not have been social outcasts after all

An especially malevolent form of American entrepreneurship – Encyclopedia Virginia

“Slave trader.” It’s one of the most loathsome expressions in the English language. Even enslavers claimed to recoil at that designation in the era when slavery flourished. Andrew Jackson took umbrage at being called a “negro-trader” during the bitter presidential election of 1828, even though the slaves he bought and sold as a young man as part of the burgeoning interstate trade in enslaved people helped make him rich. Jackson’s slave trading followed the pattern of many financially ambitious men at the dawning of the nineteenth century something done long enough to amass enough capital to buy a plantation and become a comfortable, respectable enslaver and then never mentioned again. By the time Jackson became president, he enslaved almost 100 people but hated being called a slave trader.

Cash for Negroes (June 5, 1826) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Phenix Gazette, June 5, 1826, 3, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025006/1826-06-05/ed-1/seq-3/. FULL TEXT Cash for Negroes. THE subscriber wishes to purchase THIRTY-FIVE OR FORTY LIKELY NEGROES, either separately or in families, for which the highest price will be given. –Apply at Mr. Elias P. Legg’s , on St. Asaphstreet, or any information addressed to me in Alexandria, through the post-office, will be attended to. RELATED CONTENT

Franklin and Armfield – Encyclopedia Virginia

Enslaved Africans and their descendants were bought and sold within mainland British North America from the moment they were first brought to Virginia in the early seventeenth century. Tens of thousands of enslaved people were exchanged domestically throughout the colonial era and during the first several decades of the American republic. But this trade was limited, relative to what it would later become, and opportunities for men working as slave traders even more so. Through the age of the American Revolution, and continuing for a generation thereafter, enslavers in places such as South Carolina and Georgia met many of their labor demands by importing enslaved people from Africa and the Caribbean. White migrants to new western territories and to states like Kentucky and Tennessee tended to bring enslaved laborers with them when they moved. At the same time, the American banking system was immature and undercapitalized, which limited capital for large-scale transactions. There were

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