The Second Middle Passage: America's Domestic Slave Trade

Between the ban on importation in 1808 and the Civil War, over a million enslaved people were forcibly moved from the Upper South to the Deep South in what historian Ira Berlin called the Second Middle Passage. This episode explores the mechanics of that internal trade: the coffle lines of chained men, women, and children walking from Virginia to Mississippi; the sprawling slave-trading empire of Franklin & Armfield based in Alexandria; the bustling New Orleans market; and the relentless destruction of families. Lucas and Luna discuss the human cost of this massive forced migration, the businessmen who profited, and the terror of being 'sold down the river.' They also touch on the legal framework that enabled the trade and the rare acts of resistance it spawned. A harrowing chapter in American history that is often overshadowed by the international slave trade. #SecondMiddlePassage #DomesticSlaveTrade #FranklinAndArmfield #IsaacFranklin #JohnArmfield #Coffle #ForksOfTheRoad #Alexandria #NewOrleans #SoldDownTheRiver #IraBerlin #AntebellumSouth #Slavery #AmericanHistory #FexingoHistory #History #SlaveTrade #19thCentury Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo