[antinomian]

Long after the U.S. slave trade officially ended, the more extensive movement of Africans to Brazil and Cuba continued. The U.S. Navy never was assiduous in hunting down slave traders. The much larger British Navy was more aggressive, and it attempted a blockade of the slave coast of Africa, but the U.S. was one of the few nations that did not permit British patrols to search its vessels, so slave traders continuing to bring human cargo to Brazil and Cuba generally did so under the U.S. flag. They also did so in ships built for the purpose by Northern shipyards, in ventures financed by Northern manufacturers.

It is worth emphasizing this did not end in 1865. The abolition of slavery in the US did not stop the slave trade to Brazil.

[wardaddy]

nice job on this thread.

I pasted that from a site called Slavenorth.com since X wondered aloud upthread which port was most prolific.

I confess I did want to take the time to dress it up html.....but I should have attributed it

though anyone here knows I don’t write that well...lol

i have several books on slavery that i just glanced at but none list which port had the most traffic

i did discover that NOLA was a bigger slave port than Charleston though....although much of that was secondary tween New England and the lower Mississippi delta plantocracy