Mike Pascoe’s Reviews > Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation > Status Update

There were more millionaires in the New South than in New England in the 1830s. This men moved away from restrictions on slavery to a new part of the country and brought tons of slaves with them to support their cotton growing empire.

142 black slaves were thrown off of a 18th century British ship and later claimed as lost cargo on an insurance claim.

Confederate slave holders were paid reparations after they had to give up their slaves.