“Every Southern state had banished the slave trade. So the New Engendars now had no profit from slavery at all and became abolitionist.” -——
Can you recommend one or more sources of documentation as to when the Southern states banned the slave trade, and the extent to which New Englanders were owners/operators of slaving ships, in addition to British, Portugese and possibly others?
You can look it up yourself, It is common knowledge that all states had banned the slave trade. It should be easy to find.
The Northern slave ships is just my guess based on the fact that most of the shipping was from the N.E,