[Yosemitest]

Is that why most of the slave ships came out of the northern ports, to go and capture slaves from Africa and run up to the south to sell them?
Have you never read of the "Sugar Triangle" about Slaves, Rum, Sugar, and money ?

[ifinnegan]

“Have you never read of the “Sugar Triangle” about Slaves, Rum, Sugar, and money ?”

Are you serious?

You think people don’t know about the slave trade?

[Bull Snipe]

Would not have been a slave trade, if there were no buyers.
But rather than develop a labor force that worked for wages, they preferred to buy and sell people like cattle or horses.