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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.
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.
Jordan Arterburn (1808–1875) and Tarlton Arterburn (1810–1883) were brothers and interstate slave traders of the 19th-century United States. They typically bought enslaved people in their home state of Kentucky in the upper south, and then moved them to Mississippi in the lower south, where there was a constant demand for enslaved laborers on the plantations of King Cotton.
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 ...
"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 ...
When the Atlantic slave trade came to be a prominent economic force along the Atlantic coast, panyarring became a means for securing additional persons to trade, disrupting the trade of rivals, in some instances of protecting members of a person's family from being taken in the slave trade, and a political and economic tool used by European forces.
Bernard Moore Campbell (c. 1810 – May 30, 1890) and Walter L. Campbell (b. c. 1807) operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South.B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H. Slatter, has been described as one of the "tycoons of the slave trade" in the Upper South, "responsible for the forced departures of approximately 9,000 ...