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In The 1830s The District's Southern Territory Of Alexandria Went Into Economic Decline Partly Due To Neglect By Congress The City Of Alexandria Was A Major Market In The American Slave Trade And Pro-slavery Residents Feared That Abolitionists In Congress Would End Slavery In The District Further Depressing The Economy Alexandria's Citizens Petitioned Virginia To Take Back The Land It Had Donated To Form The District Through A Process Known As Retrocession
. Anti-literacy Slave sale Charleston 1856 Some traders moved their "chattels" by sea with Norfolk to New Orleans being the most common route but most slaves were forced to walk overland Others were shipped downriver from such markets as Louisville on the Ohio River and Natchez on the Mississippi Traders created regular migration routes served by a network of slave pens yards and warehouses needed as temporary housing for the slaves in addition other vendors provided clothes food and supplies for slaves As the trek advanced some slaves were sold and new ones purchased Berlin concluded "In all the slave trade with its hubs and regional centers its spurs and circuits reached into every cranny of southern society Few southerners black or white were untouched.".
; ! 2.1.1 Importation of slaves, Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition.
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