The coastwise slave trade existed along the eastern coastal areas of North America. Shiploads and boatloads of slaves were transported from place to place on the waterways that exist there. Hundreds of vessels of various sizes and capacities were employed in the transporting of slaves from place to place. The famous Creole case began with a slave rebellion on board a ship that was transporting 135 slaves coastwise.
A similar slave rebellion occurred on board the Amistad in 1839, on the high seas.
Read more about Coastwise Slave Trade: Legal Rights, Greater List of Laws and Court Rulings, Cabotage
Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or trade:
“I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
“Whatever trade one is in, one will find some fault with it.”
—Chinese proverb.