those "chained poor folks", who worked "under the lash" for NO $$$$ WERE slaves, no matter how you/anyone else TRIES to"confuse the issue".
fwiw, only about three DYs here are DUMB ENOUGH to NOT see that i'm correct.
free dixie,sw
Sir, I agreed with you that the conditions under which people lived in that area may have qualified as “slavery” from our present perspective.
That is all quite beside the point.
Your claim was that massive numbers of “northern slaves” were sold to the Caribbean Islands during the WBTS.
I have merely asked you to back this claim up with something resembling evidence. All you have produced is anecdotes about “slavery” existing in the islands long after it was supposedly banned.
The existence of “slaves” does not equate to the existence of a slave trade, most especially not to massive numbers of slaves being imported from foreign lands. Most people down through history have lived in slave or semi-slave conditions. Not very many have been shipped across the ocean to other lands.
The overseas slave trade was banned in the US in 1808 or thereabouts, equated with piracy and made a capital crime in 1828, and somebody actually hanged in 1862 or so.
You claim exporting of slaves in large numbers during the WBTS, yet I have never read of a single incident. Please come up with something resembling evidence for this extraordinary claim.