To satisfy the need for slave labor in the Cotton Kingdom, an estimated 1 million slaves were relocated to the Deep South from the older slave states between 1800 and 1860.

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This internal slave trade, often referred to as the Second Middle Passage, involved the forced migration of a significant number of enslaved African Americans to the Deep South to work on cotton plantations, as the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 had greatly increased the demand for slave labor in the region.

To Satisfy the Need for Slave Labor in the Cotton