Thursday, January 2, 2020

WALL STREET AND SLAVERY

The slave trade continued long after it was made illegal in various ways and places here. Randall, p 42.

J G Randall, The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1937, Ch. II, sec III, p. 44:

'The illicit slave trade continued through the years to the Civil War. In 1860 there was presented to Congress a report covering 648 pages which dealt entirely with this subject.1 House Ex. Doc. No. 7, 36 Cong., 2 sess.

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"Almost all the slave expeditions for some time past (it was stated) have been fitted out in the United States, chiefly at New York." Large amounts of American capital were involved, a fact regarded abroad as an international scandal.'