The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from

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The internal slave trade in the United States primarily involved the movement of enslaved people from older, established slave states like Virginia, where the soil was becoming exhausted from tobacco cultivation, to the Lower South (newly developing cotton-growing areas), to meet the labor demands of the expanding cotton frontier.

The Internal Slave Trade in the United States Involved the Movement