History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1666 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Volume
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The idea
Virginia slaveholders sold more than half a million people between seventeen ninety and eighteen fifty-nine, Maryland dealers at least one hundred eighty-five thousand.
In practice
Kentucky slaveholders selling about seventy-one thousand, most sent to Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Where people slip
In each decade between eighteen twenty and eighteen sixty, about two hundred thousand people were sold and relocated.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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