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To: DiogenesLamp

The Atlantic slave trade was ended by Britain in the 1860s.


535 posted on 02/20/2018 9:31:57 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: OIFVeteran
The Atlantic slave trade was ended by Britain in the 1860s.

Yes it was, but the map illustrates where those slaves went, and gives you an idea of how big each slave industry was. The Carribbean slave business was bigger than the Southern state slave business.

The possibility of the South expanding there would have required them to compete with the existing and much larger slave plantations already in place.

542 posted on 02/20/2018 11:32:13 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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