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DWGPhoto > The Capital of Virginia, once considered the Slave Trading Capital of the United 
States. 

The first group of African slaves brought to this country was to Jamestown between 1607 and 1619.
For more than 50 years prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Richmond, the capitol of the Confederacy, largely built with slave labor, it was also one of the nation’s largest slaves trading center. After intercontinental slavery was abolished in 1809, Richmond discovered that shipping enslaved people farther south and west was very lucrative.  The city grew as an extension of Jamestown and Williamsburg.  For years Africans were taken from ships and marched along a trail at night to conceal them from unwelcome concerned citizens.  
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
DWGPhoto > Creative Services of David Willis photo
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