Impact of The Interregional Slave Trade On Westward Migration
The primary issue that faces such analysis is determining the westward migration of the interregional slave trade from that incidental to the relocation of a slave’s master.
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman first gave this figure to be 16 percent in their work Time on the Cross. This estimate, however, has been met with severe criticism due to the extreme sensitivity of the linear function employed to gather this approximation. A more recent estimate, given by Jonathan B. Pritchett, has this figure at about 50 percent, or about 835,000 slaves total between 1790-1850.
It is worth noting that, even without the interregional slave trade, it is plausible that migration would have occurred naturally due to natural population pressures and the subsequent increase in land prices. Professor Miller therefore contends that, “it is even doubtful whether the interstate slave traffic made a net contribution to the westward flow of the population.”
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