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Episodes tagged "Slave Trade": 1 through 10 of 13

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  1. The Henry Watson Story
    date 1813 to 1823map FREDERICK, Virginiatags Slave Trade, Slavery, fugitive slave

    In the year 1813 right outside Fredericksburg, Virginia, a slave was born. The name of the slave was Henry Watson. Henry was born into slavery by his late mother, Letty. Like most slaves he had no recollection of his age, he had heard that the age of a slave is kept by the different seasons of the year. If a child were to ask of their age, the answer would be similar to this quote “this planting...

  2. Solomon Bayley: The Hope of Escaping Slavery
    date January 1, 1813 to December 31, 1825map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Slave Trade, Escaping slavery

    Solomon Bayley touched the tender side of slavery in his narrative. Torn away from his enslaved family in Delaware and carried off in a wagon, Bayley jumped to freedom. It was only the chance to buy back his wife and son that motivated Bayley. On his adventure he was forced to journey by foot through Virginia, and ran into scheming slaves and slave owners. Bayley finally made it to the slave markets...

  3. A Family Divided: Henry Watson and The Slave Trade
    date 1813 to 1823map SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginiatags Slavery, Slave Trade

    Henry Watson woke up one morning by himself. His mother, who had put him to bed the night before, was not next to him. He began to worry; he had never been without his mother before, even a day. After all he was still a child. He scurried out of bed and looked around. He asked several other slaves, who knew his mother well, of her whereabouts. Every single one gave him a blank stare; no one said a...

  4. The Power of the Bible
    date 1849map WORCESTER, Massachusettstags Slave Trade, Freed Slaves, Church, African-Americans

      Walking all alone through the dirt roads of Vermont on a bitterly cold winter day, Aaron found himself astonished. Aaron's astonishment had nothing to do with the journey itself; it was far removed from the runaway slave advertisements he had grown accustomed to seeing on the sidewalks of Ohio claiming his name, from the days in which he had to hide whenever there were newcomers in town, from the...

  5. Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    date 1856map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Slavery, Slave Trade, Slave States

    "Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils," Olmstead quoted this from Benjamin Franklin. In 1856, an Englishman, Frederick Law Olmstead, wrote A journey in the seaboard slave states. It is about his long journey in the seaboard slave states of Virginia, North Carolina,...

  6. Narrative of Walter Calloway, slave from Richmond, VA
    date 1858map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Slavery, Civil War, Crime/Violence, Slave Trade

    Imagine being purchased as a slave at ten years old, forced to relocate from Virginia to Alabama, and required to endure hours of hard labor and beatings.  This was the life of Walter Calloway, born in 1848 in Richmond, Virginia.  At the age of 10, Calloway was bought by slave master John Calloway whose plantation resided just outside of Montgomery, Alabama.  As he sat on a porch outside his home...

  7. Slavery in Florida
    date February 9, 1865map JEFFERSON, Floridatags florida slave history, Slave Trade, Slavery

    Florida achieved statehood in 1821. Up until then, the Spanish had ruled the land for almost three hundred years. When Florida achieved statehood, the total population was twelve thousand, the majority consisting of free blacks, fugitive slaves, or Seminole, Creek or Mikasuki Indians. Some blacks found the more relaxed racial climate to their liking. By the 1730s, Spanish Florida existed as a haven...

  8. The reliance on the slave trade as a benefit to the economy
    date 1860map DADE, Floridatags Slave Trade, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Slavery

    Slave Trade Understanding the economic standards for growth in the new world at the time can help one understand the importance of the slave trade. There was a constant demand for slaves because they were vital to the stability of their individual plantations. "Slavery shaped the economic growth of the lower South in the eighteenth century " (Rosenbloom 1999). These individual slaves were not looked...

  9. African Slave Trade in the United States
    date April 1, 1857map NEW YORK, New Yorktags African-Americans, Slave Trade

    The United States Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, but there were some who still took part in the slave trade, knowing it was illegal. Some southerners even talked about reviving the slave trade in the mid-1850s, but most Americans opposed this idea, and numerous slave smugglers were put on trial in the United States. According to the New York Herald, "the United States considered...

  10. The Other Side of The Slave Trade
    date 1845map ALCHUA, Floridatags Slave Trade, Slavery

    A letter from Geo B. Matthew to Lord Stanley in 1845 gives us a unique insight into the way in which the slave trade was operated. Matthew gives reports of ships with "Colored" crews that have been wrecked and the crews were sold into slavery. The letter also shows us a comparison between slaves in the United States, as compared to other parts in the world. As opposed to obtaining slaves directly...

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