[Drennan Whyte]

“The Society have heard with great distress that a considerable part of the Slaves who have been sold in the Southern States since the establishment of the Peace have been imported in vessels fitted out in the State over which your Excellency presides”

Would those ships have been fitted out to begin with if they hadn't been able to sell all those slaves to the Southern States? That's basic capitalism - where there is demand then someone will supply it. No demand, no supply.

[bushpilot1]

The Southern States played a small role in the slave trade..the majority went to the islands and Brazil on Yankee ships. It was a Southern President who banned the trans Atlantic slave trade to the US.