New Orleans slave market

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States was one of the most important American slave markets of the lower Mississippi River valley from approximately 1830 until the American Civil War. Slaves from the upper south and greater Chesapeake regions of the U.S. were trafficked by land and by sea to New Orleans where they were sold at a markup to the cotton and sugar plantation barons of the region.

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