Virginia’S Slave Trade Part II

1. Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade ( Atlas of Early American History , ed. by Lester Cappon.)

2. Rocky Ridge (Manchester), July 15, 1766 Rocky Ridge, October 12, 1769 Rocky Ridge, November 22, 1769 Rocky Ridge, February 1, 1776

3. Late 1760s Va. Gazette ads

4. Richmond Slave Sales, February 1770 and July 1777

7. From importation to exportation Gen. C. C. Pinckney (S.C.), Constitutional Convention, 1787: Virginia “will gain by stopping the importations. Her slaves will rise in value, & she has more than she wants.” 1787-1807: Organized interregional slave trade began. 1792: Virginia Governor learned a major reason for eastern Virginia slave rebelliousness: the “practice of severing husband, wife and children in sales.” January 1, 1808: Importation of Africans became illegal throughout the U.S., leading Deep South to go to Virginia and other markets. 1840 to Civil War: Richmond dominated exportation of enslaved people from the Old Dominion.

9. Total for ALL of Virginia, 1790-1863: 515,075. One half = ca. 257,500. Other scholars believe 300,000 were sold away from Virginia. Copyright Phillip Troutman, 1998 http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/slavetrade/migrmaps.html

11. Why did Virginia still have the largest number of (U.S.) slaves in 1860?

13. LIVERPOOL AND VIRGINIA

16. Exportation by sea: Rocketts, by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1796

18. Lumpkin’s Jail Archaeology proposal, 2005

19. Lumpkin’s Jail Mutual Assurance Society Policy renewal, 1851

22. Shockoe Valley, 1865

25. Manchester Docks (south bank) and Rocketts (north bank), 1865

26. Rocketts, 1865

29. Lewis Miller watercolor, 1853

30. Eyre Crowe painting, Richmond, 1853-4

32. First African Baptist Church Gregg Kimball, American City, Southern Place , 135

33. 1857: Richmond Enquirer estimated city slave auction receipts at $3,500,000 (2005 estimates: $71,897,935 or $102,642,411) Another newspaper reported $4,000,000 in receipts. (2005 estimates: $82,169,069 or $$117,305,613)

36. Remembering, Retracing, Memorializing, Reconciling Ancestors and Relatives Ship manifests Slave Traders’ records Freedmen’s Bank Narratives; Family stories Distinctive names Famous forced migrants Madison Washington, Creole revolt leader The Richmond Slave Trail Shockoe Reconciliation Statue