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SLAVERY IN AMERICA: Who really owned and operated the slave trade . . . SLAVERY IN AMERICA: Who really owned and operated the slave trade? Who Brought The Slaves To America? By Walter White Jr , 1968 The story of the slaves in America begins with Christopher Columbus His voyage to America was not financed by Queen Isabella, but by Luis de Santangelo, who advanced the sum of 17,000 ducats (about 5,000 pounds-today equal to 50,000 pounds) to finance the voyage
15 Major Corporations You Never Knew Profited from Slavery Aetna, Inc , the United States’ largest health insurer, apologized for selling policies in the 1850s that reimbursed slave owners for financial losses when the enslaved Africans they owned died
List of slave traders of the United States - Wikipedia This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i e the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the
Franklin Armfield: The Two Men Who Built the Largest and Most . . . Franklin and Armfield entered the domestic slave trade at a critical moment in American history The transatlantic slave trade had been outlawed in 1808, but the demand for enslaved labour, particularly in the cotton-producing states of the Deep South, was soaring Virginia, Maryland, and other Upper South states had a surplus of enslaved laborers, making them prime sources for traders looking
Why Nobody Knows About These Two Cruel Slave Traders From America? Isaac Franklin and John Armfield were America's cruelest and richest slave traders of the 19th century Franklin and Armfield owned a company from 1828 to 1836 and transported over 10,000 slaves from the North to the South
The Men Who Made Slavery Into Big Business - The Atlantic From 1800 to 1860, more than 1 million enslaved people were forcibly moved across state lines, shifting American slavery’s center of gravity steadily southward and westward as slaveholders
Franklin and Armfield - Encyclopedia Virginia Franklin and Armfield was the largest and most powerful domestic slave trading company in the United States between 1828 and 1836, and it was likely the largest and most powerful in American history Founded by Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, the company purchased thousands of enslaved people in Maryland and Virginia, forced them to walk hundreds of miles overland or trafficked them by ship
Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia The sailing of slaves in the domestic slave trade is known as "sold down the river," indicating slaves being sold from Louisville, Kentucky which was a slave trading city and supplier of slaves
9 Facts About Slavery They Dont Want You to Know A widely circulated list of historical "facts" about slavery dwells on the participation of non-whites as owners and traders of slaves in America
Who sold the first slaves to America? - Answers The Europeans The Portuguese and the English brought the most slaves over from Africa but slaves in smaller numbers were also taken to the Americas by the Spanish, French, Dutch and Danes The slave trade was usually in the hands of independent traders from those countries who sold the slaves in America (the continent) and returned to Europe with high value commodities such as cotton, sugar