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The Second Middle Passage: America's Domestic Slave Trade
Between the ban on importation in 1808 and the Civil War, over a million enslaved people were forcibly moved from the Upper South to the Deep South in what historian Ira Berlin called the Second Middle Passage. This episode explores the mechanics of that internal trade: the coffle lines of chained men, women, and children walking from Virginia to Mississippi; the sprawling slave-trading empire of Franklin & Armfield based in Alexandria; the bustling New Orleans market; and the relentless destruction of families. Lucas and Luna discuss the human cost of this massive forced migration, the…
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