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The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history

  • Written by Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History, University of Alabama
imageA trade card with printed black type for the domestic slave traders Hill, Ware and Chrisp.Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

For my recently published book, “The Ledger and the Chain,” I visited more than 30 archives in over a dozen states, from Louisiana to Connecticut. Along the way,...

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