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This is a list of slave traders operating within the present-day boundaries of Texas before 1865, including the eras of Spanish Texas (before 1821), Mexican Texas (1821–1836), the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), and antebellum U.S. and Confederate Texas (1846–1865).
"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 ...
In 1823, Mexico forbade the sale or purchase of people, and required that the children of the enslaved be freed when they reached age fourteen. [11] By 1825, however, a census of Austin's Colony showed 1,347 Anglo-Americans and 443 people of African descent, including a small number of free blacks. [17]
Clay attended N.W. Harllee before going on to graduate from Lincoln High School in South Dallas. [15] In 1937, former slave Mose Hursey told his life story to the Federal Writers Project at his home on Tenth Street. [16] His narrative is part of the Ex-Slave Narrative Collection enshrined in the Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress.
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.
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."
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 ...
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...