[central_va]

The "noble" Northerners who found slavery not to their economic advantage at the end of the 18th century sold their slaves to the South. It is where the phrase "sold me down the river" comes from.

No altruism there. The pompous asses that live there now calling in otherwise not withstanding.

[rockrr]

Well, sorta.

Louisville, Kentucky was a hub for the slave market. close to one million slaves were transported to the Deep South via Louisville and the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1860. Those slaves sold at the market In Louisville were literally “sold down the river”.

There may have been sales from northerners looking to offload unwanted slaves but those were statistically insignificant compared to pure market forces looking to satisfy southern demand.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

It is where the phrase "sold me down the river" comes from.

Wrong. The phrase refers to slave owners from the upper south selling slaves to the lower south, literally sending them down the Mississippi River. The earliest citation of the phrase is from Missouri in the 1830s.