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Slave Trade Registers. The Constitution allowed the outlawing of the importation of enslaved persons to the United States after 1808. Between then and the Civil War, the internal slave trade became an important business in the southern United States. Most states regulated the slave trade. A few kept records of slave traders and their businesses. Look for such business registers at state libraries, archives, historical societies, or county courthouses.

• Slave Voyages, Online at the TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database. Some registers about the slave trade, throughout Europe and the Western Hemisphere, can be found here.

National Archives

• Records relating to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade.