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Bernard M. Campbell
Bernard Moore Campbell ( – May 30, 1890) and Walter L. Campbell (b. ) operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South. B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H. Slatter, has been described as one of the "tycoons of the slave trade" in the Upper South, "responsible for the forced departures of approximately 9,000 captives from Baltimore to New Orleans." Bernard and Walter were brothers. Work and partnerships A visualized analysis of slave-trading in antebellum New Orleans found that Bernard M. Campbell was one of the two most prolific and connected traders in the dataset. In 1848 B.M. Campbell sold two enslaved people to presidential candidate Zachary Taylor for $1,500. According to Frederic Bancroft in ''Slave-Trading in the Old South'', Campbell and his business partner Walter L. Campbell (often listed in public records and advertisements as W. L. Campbell) were "dealers of the first class" in Baltimore, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate Slave Trade
The legal institution of human Slavery#Chattel slavery, chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of List of ethnic groups of Africa, Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States, United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the Southern United States, South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization of the Americas, European colonization in the Americas. From 1526, during early Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, colonial days, it was practiced in what became British America, Britain's colonies, including the Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. Under the law, an enslaved person was treated as property that could be bought, sold, or given away. Slavery lasted in about half of U.S. states until Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolition. In the decades after the end of Reconstruction era, Reconstruction, many of slavery's economic and soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
