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unusual facts about American slavery



Zebulon Crocker

Citing the debate over the institution of slavery in America as a secondary cause of schism, Crocker focused on the relationship between New England Congregationalists and Southern Presbyterians, a relationship that had been formalized in the 1801 Plan of Union.


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Nathan Huggins

It traces the full impact of the Middle Passage and of North American slavery, both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them.

Robert A. Alexander

Alexander purchased African-American slaves Ansel Williamson and Edward D. Brown, who were taught the business of breeding and training horses.

Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

In American Slavery, the historian Peter Kolchin suggests that the economists did not fully consider the costs of the forced migration of more than one million slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South, where they were sold to cotton plantations.