The Domestic Slave Trade of the Southern States

by Winfield H. Collins

[166] P.A. Morse, of Louisiana, De Bow's Review, Vol. XXIII., p. 480. Note.—The statement was made by a South Carolina delegate to the Southern Convention at Montgomery in 1858, that Virginia was then the best market in the Union for the slaves of his State. De Bow's Review, Vol. XXIV., p. 595.

[167] Olmsted: Seaboard Slave States, p. 127.

[168] Liberator, Jan. 12, 1855.

[169] De Bow's Review, Vol. XXVI., p. 650.

[170] Ibid.: Vol. XXII., p. 222.

[171] De Bow's Review, Vol. XVIII., p. 628; Vol. XXII., pp. 216, 217, 218; Vol. XXIV., pp. 581, 585, 574, 588.

[172] Ibid.: Vol. XXVII., p. 470.

[173] New Orleans Picaynne, Jan. 8, 15, 1846; Feb. 3, Dec. 10, 1856; Jan. 7, 14, 1858; Dec. 31, 1859.

[174] Sumner's Works, Vol. V., p. 62; Olmsted, Cotton Kingdom, Vol. I., (note) p. 58. Chambers: Slavery and Color, p. 148. Chase and Sanborn: The North and the South, p. 22.

Note.—The estimate of 60,000 given in Hunt's Merchants' Magazine is scarcely worth consideration. Hunt's Magazine, Vol. XLIII., p. 642.