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Slave Trail of Tears
editThe Slave Trail of Tears was the forced migration of about a million enslaved African-Americans from tobacco plantations of the Upper South to cotton plantations of the Deep South, during the 50 years prior to the Civil War. They were chained together in small groups called a "coffle" and driven on foot by white men on horseback, armed with guns and whips. They started in Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky, and were delivered to new owners in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Some were marched all the way to their destination, with some of their number being sold along the way to pay for food for the remaining members of the coffle. Others were transported by riverboat when they got far enough west to reach New Orleans by river, giving rise to the phrase "sold down the river."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/?no-ist