its graphic description of abuse of slave women was unique among slave narratives and was shocking to American readers. • Harriet Jacobs • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl After the Civil ...

an extensive domestic trade opened between the older slave states such as Virginia and Maryland, and the new territories, such as Mississippi and Alabama. Cotton cultivation was pushing west ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...