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 | 1808 January, Slave trade was ended.
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| **Thus related only to the import of slaves from Africa and has little
effect on breeding and raising of slaves in the south, other than driving the prices for
slaves upwards. Thirty two years — 16 plus 16 years — later, in 1850 the
ex-slave and orator Fredrick Douglass thundered to an abolitionist meeting: "... I am
also prepared to prove that slave breeding is relied upon by Virginia as one of her chief
sources of wealth. ...It is also known that slave women, who are nearly white, are sold in
these markets, at prices which proclaim, trumpet-tongued, the accursed purposes to which
they are to be devoted..." |
| Sales of 2000 dollars and up for such women were not unusual.
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| *Causes,** leading causes, ***immediate leading causes for a Civil War. |
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