This is the Whig interpretation of slave shipping.
Pinning it on a wealthy landowner and shipbuilder from Mobile......a Southerner, when the slave trade had overwhelmingly been done by Northern shipping and trading companies for centuries, including smuggling after 1808.
See, merely as a way of seeing how much is not explained,
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Wikipedia
Most history accounts in Wikipedia are somewhat to very whig Interpretation accounts. Very typical.
See, merely as a way of seeing how much is not explained,
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Wikipedia
Most history accounts in Wikipedia are somewhat to very whig Interpretation accounts. Very typical.
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