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List of slave traders of the United States
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States. Slave traders were human traffickers that bought and sold people as property, also called "chattel" or "commodities". The people who were enslaved and bought and sold were primarily Africans and African-American people in the Southern United States. This began in the American colonies in the early 1600's and continued through the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the US Civil War of 1861-1865, until the defeat of the Confederate States of America in 1865.
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was passed into law in 1808 under the Star-Spangled Banner flag, when there were 15 states in the Union. This Act, combined wtih the Slave Trade Act of 1794 and the Slave Trade Act of 1800, prohibited US citizens from engaging in the international slave trade between nations:
These laws did not apply to the domestic or interstate slave trade in the US, which continued through the end of the US Civil War. The laws did apply to the transatlantic slave trade and prohibited US citizens from participating in it. Little to no enforcement of these laws resulted in a dramatic increase of the illegal slave trade. US slave traders and slavery oligarchs established new trade routes with other countries, primarily Brazil and Cuba.
Over 50 years later, in 1865, the last American slave sale was made somewhere in the rebel Confederacy. In the intervening years, the politics surrounding the addition of 20 new states to the Union had been almost overwhelmingly dominated by whether or not those states would have legal slavery.
Slavery was widespread, so slave trading was widespread, and "When a planter died, failed in business, divided his estate, needed ready money to satisfy a mortgage or pay a gambling debt, or desired to get rid of an unruly Negro, traders struck a profitable bargain."
Slave traders were not limited to a single profession but were found across many levels of a society that profited from the practice. Terms used to describe occupations related to slave trading included the following:
Directly involved in the trade:
Involved in capture and transport:
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List of slave traders of the United States
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States. Slave traders were human traffickers that bought and sold people as property, also called "chattel" or "commodities". The people who were enslaved and bought and sold were primarily Africans and African-American people in the Southern United States. This began in the American colonies in the early 1600's and continued through the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the US Civil War of 1861-1865, until the defeat of the Confederate States of America in 1865.
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves was passed into law in 1808 under the Star-Spangled Banner flag, when there were 15 states in the Union. This Act, combined wtih the Slave Trade Act of 1794 and the Slave Trade Act of 1800, prohibited US citizens from engaging in the international slave trade between nations:
These laws did not apply to the domestic or interstate slave trade in the US, which continued through the end of the US Civil War. The laws did apply to the transatlantic slave trade and prohibited US citizens from participating in it. Little to no enforcement of these laws resulted in a dramatic increase of the illegal slave trade. US slave traders and slavery oligarchs established new trade routes with other countries, primarily Brazil and Cuba.
Over 50 years later, in 1865, the last American slave sale was made somewhere in the rebel Confederacy. In the intervening years, the politics surrounding the addition of 20 new states to the Union had been almost overwhelmingly dominated by whether or not those states would have legal slavery.
Slavery was widespread, so slave trading was widespread, and "When a planter died, failed in business, divided his estate, needed ready money to satisfy a mortgage or pay a gambling debt, or desired to get rid of an unruly Negro, traders struck a profitable bargain."
Slave traders were not limited to a single profession but were found across many levels of a society that profited from the practice. Terms used to describe occupations related to slave trading included the following:
Directly involved in the trade:
Involved in capture and transport: