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Appendix
The Internal Slave Trade
Extract from an Oration, at Rochester, July 5, 1852
Douglass describes the domestic slave trade he watched as a child on Baltimore's docks, the coffles marched south to New Orleans, and the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law, which he calls a legal bribe paid to judges for every person they consign to bondage.
The internal, interstate slave trade versus the outlawed foreign tradeCoffles witnessed from Douglass's boyhood home on Philpot StreetAustin Woldfolk's Baltimore slave-trading operationThe 1850 Fugitive Slave Law's bribe structure for judges