[Idabilly]

“I don't know. Would Dr. Williams have wanted to be plucked from his home, crammed into a ship, sent thousands of miles away, and spend the rest of his life in slave labor?”

Since you served in the Navy- I'll ask you

What flag waved over them Slave ships? USA of Confederate? Did they dock in a Northern port?

[Non-Sequitur]

What flag waved over them Slave ships? USA of Confederate? Did they dock in a Northern port?

You're talking about a long period of time. Slavery ran from the early 1600's to the mid-1800's. During most of that period, slave ships flew the flags of European countries. After the U.S. gained its independence then a lot of U.S. ships participated in the slave trade, even after it was outlawed in 1809. And for a brief period between 1861 and 1865 the confederate flag flew over ships that ran a small number of slaves into the confederacy.

Now as to whether they landed in Northern ports, I'm sure that they did when slavery was legal and slave importing was legal. Just as they also landed in Southern ones.

Happy?

[usmcobra]

I got a better question, how many US Navy ships were involved in stopping the slave trade?

Here is the historical record of the last Prize taken by the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) the Prize, the American schooner H. N. Gambrill