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ON VIEW
EXHIBITION
Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808-1865
March 17—July 18, 2015
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 8.171.-4:30 p.m.
Free
The Price of Life
The Collection’s newest exhibition surveys the brutal business of the domestic slave trade and the inner workings of one of its biggest hubs, New Orleans.
The first slave ship bearing African captives to British North America arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Nearly two centuries later, on March 2, 1807, the United States Congress signed into law An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves. The law, which took effect January 1 of the following year, effectively ended US participation in the transatlantic slave trade, though American slavery—the racialized system of hereditary bondage under which millions of men, women, and children already lived and labored— remained intact.
The importation of African slaves to Virginia and neighboring Maryland and North Carolina had slowed in the years following the American Revolution, due in large part
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