Slave trading in the Old South

I. Some phases of the background

II. Early domestic slave-trading

III. The District of Columbia "The very seat and center"

IV. The importance of slave-rearing

V. Virginia and the Richmond Market

VI. Here and there in Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri

VII. Slave-hiring

VIII. The height of the slave trade in Charleston

IX. Dividing families and selling children separately

X. Savannah's leading trader and his largest sale

XI. Minor trading in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee

XII. Memphis: the Boltons, the Forrests, and Others

XIII. Various features of the interstate trade

XIV. Some Alabama and Mississippi Markets

XV. New Orleans the mistress of the trade

XVI. High prices and "the negro-fever"

XVII. The status of slave trading

XVIII. Estimates as to numbers, transactions, and value.