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Omaha Institute. Hello and welcome to episode 312 of Ben Franklin's world. The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people

and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

When we talk about slavery in the slave trade,

we often tend to focus on the transatlantic or international slave trade.

And this is because, you know, within the context of this podcast, that was a slave trade that dominated in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.

But by 1808, a different slave trade came to dominate in the young United States, and this was the domestic or internal slave trade.

Joshua Rothman, an award-winning historian, professor, and author of the book, The Ledger in the Chain,

How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.

Leads us on an exploration of the United States' domestic slave trade

and of the lives of three slave traders who really helped to define this trade.

Now during our exploration, Josh reveals the long history of North America's domestic or internal slave trade.

How and why the United States Congress passed a ban on the international or

transatlantic slave trade in 1808.

And how the 1808 ban on the international slave trade allowed the domestic slave trade to grow, develop, and emerge as a profitable business in the 19th century.

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