The end of the Atlantic slave trade did not stop domestic slave kidnapping

Evidence

That be a foolish thing. We thought this later when the first Georgia Man come and roped us. Grabbed a girl on her way for morning water. Snatched a boy running to the stables. A woman after she left her babies blinking awake in their sack blankets. A man sharpening a hoe. They always came before dawn for us chosen to be sold south. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 525

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between the Atlantic slave trade (ended by the 1808 import ban) and the domestic internal slave trade that continued and expanded — a key distinction the reader must hold to separate the reframing thesis from specific empirical claims.
• XREF: The domestic slave trade’s scale and the 1808 cut-off connect as empirical detail supporting the foundational-slavery argument the reader is trying to taxonomize. — connects to: Southern law did not protect enslaved families from forced separation by sale — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 1343
• SEED: The rumor that ‘they ain’t stealing us from over the water no more’ followed by the Georgia Man’s dawn raids could anchor an essay on how enslaved people distinguished Atlantic versus domestic sale as two different kinds of separation.