Forgotten history of Hampton Roads slave trade recollected
The region sent more than 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans — more than any other port, according to a Norfolk researcher
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Norfolk shipped 21,000 enslaved people to New Orleans before the Civil War. Now an effort is underway to document the forgotten history.
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.
Source: dailypress.com