June 9, 1820

ALEXANDRIA CITY, Virginia

Crime/Violence, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Slavery

In June of 1820, the Alexandria Herald ran an editorial condemning Northerners for their attacks on slaveholding. The writer used primary evidence to make the argument that those who criticized Southerners for upholding the institution of slavery were hypocritical because many of them made money from illegal importation of slaves overseas, the act that “produced this servitude (Alexandria).'...