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Originally posted by MattUMASSD
All this geneaology talk has sparked my interest. One day when I have a lot of money to play around with I would like research my ancestry like Alex Haley did. It would be interesting to go to South Carolina and Alabama from there to West Africa to see where my family came from. Does anyone know what were the major ports that slaves came in? I dont think there were any in alabama.
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I think Charlestown (now known as Charleston?), South Carolina was a big port. South Carolina had the largest slave trading going on within the United States, which is why the state was a big proponent of ending the trans-Atlantic slave trade