slave trade (domestic)

Tourist interest is contributing to a more honest telling of the city’s role in the US slave trade. But tensions are flaring as South Carolina lawmakers restrict race-based teachings.

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

In 1838, leaders of the Catholic order faced opposition from their own priests, but pressed forward with the sale of 272 human beings anyway.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

The domestic slave trade was no sideshow in our history, and slave traders were not bit players on the stage.

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.

In "American Slavers," Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

How abolitionists viewed the American flag.

A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people.

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'

How 19th century slave traders used, and reused, the brig named Uncas.

Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.