Cash For Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade

ISBN-13: 9780788422355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 706 str.

Ralph Clayton

Opis

The demand for slave labor increased dramatically in the first decade of the 19th century due to the invention of the cotton gin and the consequent expansion of cotton plantations in the South. In 1808 it became illegal to import slaves from Africa, howev