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Why was New Orleans destined to be the center of slave trade in the southern United States

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The geographic location of New Orleans made it, along with Savannah, an ideal center of the slave trade in the United States.

New Orleans sits on the Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, ships carrying slaves could go from anywhere in the world and have access to the river systems of middle America where slaves were being used.


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