The Second Middle Passage: America's Domestic Slave Trade

In the thirty years after the Revolution, a new type of American slave trade rose to compete with, eclipse, and replace transatlantic slave trade.This new slave trade took place wholly within the United States as more than a million enslaved African Americans made this massive forced migration from the Upper South to work on cotton plantations in the Deep South. Join Dr. Richard Bell as he explores the development of this domestic slave trade called the Second Middle Passage.