Record #:

13337

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

The idea that North Carolina had the majority of the slave trade during pre-antebellum days is disputed by a Massachusetts reader who claims that the absence of a deep sea port and fleet negated extensive slave trading within state lines.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 19, Feb 1955, p8-9, 16, 21

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Western; Slave trade--America