The slave trade, banned in the United States since 1808, in fact continued well into the 1860s. Slave traders continued to capture Africans and transport them to Cuba, the last place in the Western Hemisphere where it was still legal to land enslaved people. Shocking reports and statistics detailing this trade were sent to newspapers across the United States, including this article published in the Gazette and Courier of Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1861.
Greenfield Gazette and Courier. “The African Slave Trade.” February 25, 1861. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l02-117/. Accessed on May 14, 2025.
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