Confederate "Heritage" Month 2021, April 26: Slave traders

The Majority Report How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America w/ Joshua D. Rothman 04/19/21 featured an interview with a historian of the slave trade in the USJoshua Rothman, author of The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (2021).

One notable item in the interview is that Rothman challenges the common notion that slave traders were held in contempt even by slaveowners who used their services.

An article by Rothman appears in the Smithsonian Magazine Before the Civil War, New Orleans Was the Center of the U.S. Slave Trade 04/19/2021:

The city of New Orleans was the largest slave market in the United States, ultimately serving as the site for the purchase and sale of more than 135,000 people. In 1808, Congress exercised its constitutional prerogative to end the legal importation of enslaved people from outside the United States. But it did not end domestic slave trading, effectively creating a federally protected internal market for human beings.