Cash for blood
Subtitle: the Baltimore to New Orleans domestic slave trade
By: by Ralph Clayton.
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bowie, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
Subjects: Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Slave trade -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century.; Slave trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Genealogy.; Slaves -- United States -- Registers.; Slave traders -- United States -- Registers.; Ship registers -- Maryland -- Baltimore.; Registers of births, etc. -- United States.
Genres: Genealogy.; Registers.
Description: Because of the growing need for labor in the South and an overabundance of slaves in Maryland and Virginia, Baltimore became the main port for the selling and shipping of slaves to New Orleans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-672) and index.
Includes an index to inward bound slave manifests into the port of New Orleans from Baltimore and other Maryland ports, 1818-1856 (p. [133]-620) and an index to vessels transporting slaves (p. [621]-639).