The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States

by Winfield H. Collins

[44] State Papers, 1st Sess., 16th Cong., Vol. 3, H. Doc. 42.

[45] Niles' Reg., Jan. 22, 1820.

[46] Ibid., Dec. 12, 1818, Louisiana had a law which provided that slaves imported contrary to Act of Congress, March 2, 1807, should be seized and sold for benefit of the State. (Hurd, Vol. II., p. 159.) But the whole story is denied by another writer. (Niles' Reg., Dec. 12, 1818.)

[47] Niles' Reg., Dec. 12, 1818.

[48] Wm. Jay: Miscell. Writings on Slavery, p. 277.

[49] Du Bois: Pp. 118-122.

[50] Ibid., p. 128.

[51] Alexander: Transatlantic Sketches, p. 230.

[52] Buxton: The African Slave Trade, p. 44.

[53] Liberator: Aug. 18, 1854.