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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. 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 ...

4. Decatur slave-ship mutiny - Wikipedia

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   University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-6579-3. Taylor, Eric Robert (2009). If we must die: shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3442-9

5. 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 ...

6. Bernard Kendig - Wikipedia

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   Bernard Kendig (c. 1813 –1872) was an American slave trader, primarily operating in New Orleans.He sold enslaved people at comparatively low prices, and dealt primarily in and around Louisiana, rather than importing large numbers of enslaved people from the border states or Chesapeake region.

7. Slave markets and slave jails in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Price, Birch & Co., "dealers in slaves" Alexandria, Virginia, photographed c. 1862 In addition to private jails, enslaved people were often held in public jails, such as a 40-year-old fugitive man named Monday who fought "like the Devil when arrested" and who was held in the jail of Walker County, Alabama (The Democrat, Huntsville, July 7, 1847)