In fact, all of the supply to southern colonies arrived on ships originating from Europe, Britain, the Caribbean, or the northern colonies. So, while American slavery is so often viewed as a southern problem ended by northern agitation and eventually aggression, this is hardly the case. Many northern elites got filthy rich delivering Africans to the South. Not only did this occur, but the forces behind it grew as powerful as they did rich, later cooperating in Congress with the southern colonies to keep slavery and the slave trade legal as long as possible. Even after Congress outlawed the
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