AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.5 Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade
Notes
After the US banned importing enslaved people in 1808, the domestic slave trade forcibly moved about a million people from the Upper South to the Deep South. Auctions separated families.
Practice
The US banned importing enslaved people in:
Domestic trade grew.
The domestic slave trade moved enslaved people mainly:
Cotton expansion.
A cruel effect of slave auctions was:
Family destruction.
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