Historian Edward L. Ayers describes how the age and gender of enslaved people, along with the labor needs in different parts of the country, affected the domestic slave trade.
Key Concept 6: The experience of slavery varied depending on time, location, crop, labor performed, size of slaveholding and gender.

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