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2. New Orleans slave market - Wikipedia

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   Slaves for Sale, 156 Common St., watercolor and ink by draftsman Pietro Gualdi, 1855 "A Slave Pen at New Orleans—Before the Auction, a Sketch of the Past" (Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863) View of the Port at New Orleans, circa 1855, etching from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory 1845 map of New Orleans; the trade was ubiquitous throughout the city but especially brisk in the major hotels and ...

3. Bernard Kendig - Wikipedia

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   Kendig most likely began in the New Orleans slave-trading business in or before 1839. [5] Between 1852 and 1860 notarial records show that he sold at least 758 people (or about 95 people a year). [ 3 ] [ 5 ] In 1845, "Kendig's auction store" in New Orleans was the site of an attempted murder. [ 6 ]

4. History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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   Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...

5. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States

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   In pursuit of income if not fortune, merchant and slave trader Jackson used a flatboat to get from Stones River to the Cumberland River (or from the Watauga to the Holston to the Tennessee) to the Ohio River, to the Mississippi, and thence south to the Natchez slave market in Spanish West Florida and/or the colonial-era New Orleans slave market ...

6. Henry F. Slatter - Wikipedia

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   Henry Flewellen Slatter (July 26, 1817 – April 11, 1849) was a 19th-century American slave trader. Among other things, Slatter escorted coastwise shipments of people from slave jail of his father Hope H. Slatter in Baltimore to the slave depot of his uncle Shadrack F. Slatter in New Orleans.

7. Slave trade in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A typical trip from the port at Norfolk to New Orleans might be a three-week journey. [22] A statistical analysis of all known records of Baltimore–New Orleans slave shipments from 1820 to 1860 found that brigs were the type of ship used in about half of all shipments, and voyages commonly lasted between 21 and 35 days. [65]