The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States

by Winfield H. Collins

We feel quite confident that this statistical review of the domestic slave trade, based as it is upon the Census Reports, gives a truer idea of the actual amount of the trade between the selling and the buying States than could be got from any other sources.

FOOTNOTES:

[98] Acts Gen. Assembly of S.C. from Feb., 1791, to Dec., 1794, inclusive, Vol. I., 215.

[99] Hurd: Law of Freedom and Bondage, Vol. II., p. 74-75.

[100] Laws of the State of Delaware, 1793, p. 105.

[101] Mr. Miner, of Pennsylvania, in a speech in Congress, January 6, 1829, read the following presentment made by the Grand Jury at Alexandria in 1802. "We the Grand Jury for the body of the County of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, present as a grievance the practice of persons coming from distant parts of the United States into this district for the purpose of purchasing slaves."—Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates in Congress, Vol. V., p. 177. At this time the foreign slave trade was prohibited by statutes in all the states.

[102] Claibourne: Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State, Vol. I., p. 144.

[103] It is to be remembered that this was just before the opening of the foreign slave trade by South Carolina.

[104] Monette: History of the Valley of the Mississippi, Vol. II., pp. 177-191, 269, 295, 547. Niles' Register, Sept. 13 and Oct. 18, 1817.

[105] Census 1870. Population and Statistics, p. 4, 7 (recapitulation).