THE

DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE

OF THE

SOUTHERN STATES

BY

WINFIELD H. COLLINS, M.A.

Professor of History and English in Claremont College.

BROADWAY PUBLISHING
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BROADWAY NEW YORK

Copyrighted, in 1904,

BY

WINFIELD H. COLLINS, M.A.

All Rights Reserved.

TO

EDWARD G. BOURNE, Ph.D.,

Professor of American History, Yale University,

AND TO

THOMAS H. LEWIS, D.D.,

President of Western Maryland College,

THIS BOOK

IS INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

When I began the study of the Domestic Slave Trade of the SouthernStates I had no idea of the conclusions as herein found. Especiallyis this true of Chapters III. and IV. I have spared no pains to beaccurate in all statements of fact.

The material for this work was collected in the Yale UniversityLibrary in New Haven, Connecticut, and in the Congressional Libraryat Washington. The sources used are to be found in the appendedbibliography. The most helpful were books of travel, newspapers andperiodicals, Statistics of Southern States and the United States CensusReports.

W.H. Collins.

Claremont College,
Hickory, N.C.
February 22, 1904.

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