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Cargill Salt, Bonaire. Bonaire also is known for its salt pans (also called salt lakes, salt flats, or saliñas), [53] [92] which cover 10% of the island's land. [93] Salt pans are salt lakes or inlets that are closed to the sea by a dead coral dyke. They have an important function because they ensure the collection and filtration of rainwater.
Listing for the Joseph Bond sale - "Sales of Land and Negroes in South Western Georgia," Albany Patriot via Macon Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1860 This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner.
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Available evidence shows that Jackson participated in what is called the internal slave trade, buying and selling enslaved Americans, born and raised in the first 16 U.S. states, who were termed "country-born negroes" (as opposed to enslaved Louisiana Creole people, enslaved Saint-Domingue Creoles, "Guinea negroes" from the so-called Slave ...
"Old Slave Market, Charleston, S.C." postcard of Charleston Exchange by Detroit Publishing Co., image dated 1913–1918 "A List of Runaways Confined in the Jails of this State," Mississippi Free Trader, December 11, 1835. This is a list of notable buildings, structures, and landmarks (etc.), that were used in the slave trade in the United ...
The WIC took interest in Curaçao as a new base for trade and privateering, using its excellent natural harbor, and for salt production (to preserve fish, notably herring). Good salt pans could be found both on the coast of Venezuela and on Bonaire. Also, on Curaçao itself was blackwood, a raw material for natural paint, cattle, lime and fuel.
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.
No. 1 men: Slave traders' classification for healthy enslaved males aged 19 to 25. [13] An enslaved person expected to draw high bids might be tagged extra; less-marketable human beings for sale at auction were described as "fair, No. 2, 3rd rate, scrubs, and boys too small to plough."