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ROCKLAND – The following cases were closed in Knox County Unified Court from Oct. 24-Nov. 10. Charles J. Bill, 40, of Northport, aggravated assault in Warren July 27, 2021, 14 days in jail. Jeremy Dennison, 36, of Augusta, terrorizing, two counts,...

Congress banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808. But the domestic slave trade — trading humans within the nation’s borders, dubbed “the Second Middle Passage” — continued through the Civil War and is much less discussed in American history. The Norfolk region sent more than 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans — more than any other port, according to the new research of a Slover librarian.