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In 1860 there were 488,033 free Black residents of the U.S. and its territories. There were 3,953,860 slaves within the U.S. and its territories in 1860. BLK051 Slave Trading in the Old South Frederic Bancroft First published in 1931, Bancroft exploded deeply entrenched myths about antebellum slavery. BLK044 The African Slave Trade Basil Davidson Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries perhaps fifty million men, women, and children were captured, bought, or kidnapped from Africa by slave traders to labor in the mines and on the plantations of the western hemisphere. Davidson cuts through the maze of slave-trade myth and illusion to get at the truth of the largest forced migration in the history of mankind.