Question

Was New Orleans destined to be the center of the slave trade in the Southern United States? Use the sources from the Slavery in New Orleans to answer this question. Your response should be 3-4 sentences long.

Answer 1

Antebellum New Orleans was to the interstate slave trade what H2O is to life: the key to it all. “More enslaved people from the Upper South moved through the city's slave pens en route to the region's cane and cotton fields than were brought to the entirety of North America during the Atlantic slave trade.”