[bgill]

Odd how that map conveniently leaves off the history of Rhode Island, a Union state.

"Within 30 years the colony of Rhode Island, and in particular Newport, came to dominate the North American slave trade. Even though it was the smallest of the colonies, the great majority of slave ships leaving British North America came from Rhode Island ports. Historian Christy Clark-Pujara, in her book Dark Work, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island, indicates that during “the colonial period in total, Rhode Island sent 514 slave ships to the coast of West Africa, while the rest of the colonists sent just 189.”

http://smallstatebighistory.com/rhode-island-dominates-north-american-slave-trade-in-18th-century/

[rktman]

My first ship left Newport. 1/2/1968. Different task though. 🚢😄

[ProgressingAmerica]

Independence(The war, specifically) destroyed slave trading in British Rhode Island, Newport.

The timeline is everything.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/uEkEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&pg=PA535

Left column, just a little below middle of the page.

[rktman]

I do notice that over a million went to Jamaica. Anyone willing to call out commie-la and her ancestors on that? Guess that’d be racis’ and stuff.