Transatlantic: Involved the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas. | Domestic: Involved the trade of enslaved people within the borders of the United States.

Public sales where enslaved people were sold as property to the highest bidder, often involving violence and family separation.

The trade of enslaved people within the borders of the United States, particularly from the upper to the lower South.

The forced migration of over one million enslaved people within the United States, primarily due to the expansion of cotton production.

A single sheet of paper printed on one side, often used for public announcements or advertisements, such as slave auctions.

Groups of enslaved people chained or roped together and forced to march long distances, often from the upper to the lower South, as part of the domestic slave trade.

A person who advocated for the end of slavery.

The process of treating something as a product that can be bought and sold.

The period before the Civil War (1861-1865).

A first-person account of events, often used by formerly enslaved people to describe their experiences.

The belief that white people are superior to people of other races and should therefore dominate society.

Cause: International pressure and moral opposition to the slave trade. Effect: Increased reliance on domestic reproduction and the domestic slave trade within the United States.

Cause: Increased demand for cotton in textile mills. Effect: Expansion of cotton plantations, increased demand for enslaved labor, and the forced migration of enslaved people from the upper to the lower South.

Cause: Demand for labor in the cotton industry and the ban on the transatlantic slave trade. Effect: Forced migration of enslaved people, family separation, and immense physical and psychological trauma.