Chapter I: Preface

When I began the study of the Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States I had no idea of the conclusions as herein found. Especially is this true of Chapters III. and IV. I have spared no pains to be accurate in all statements of fact.

The material for this work was collected in the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut, and in the Congressional Library at Washington. The sources used are to be found in the appended bibliography. The most helpful were books of travel, newspapers and periodicals, Statistics of Southern States and the United States Census Reports.

W.H. Collins.

Claremont College, Hickory, N.C. February 22, 1904.

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I.

A Sketch of the Rise of the Trade in African Slaves and of the Foreign Slave Trade of the Southern States 1

CHAPTER II.

The Causes of the Rise and Development of the Domestic Slave Trade 21

CHAPTER III.

The Amount and Extent of the Trade 36

CHAPTER IV.

Were Some States Engaged in Breeding and Raising Negroes for Sale? 68

CHAPTER V.

The Kidnapping and Selling of Free Negroes into Slavery 84

CHAPTER VI.

Slave "Prisons," Markets, Character of Traders, etc. 96

CHAPTER VII.

Laws of the Southern States with Reference to Importation and Exportation of Slaves 109

Bibliography 140

THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.