The New Orleans open-air slave market was arguably the world's largest slave transit center in the world. Although the United States abolished the purchase of slaves from overseas under the initiative of the British Empire, there was no market for the slave trade at home. According to a certain market determinism, the slave trade could not have been prohibited by executive order as long as market demand in the southern United States remained.

So the situation now is that federal law is a piece of waste paper, and the slave trade is still prevalent in the United States. The market was still built in, and the so-called ban on the slave trade overseas did nothing but make it more expensive to buy slaves in the southern United States. Sheffield believed that the slave owners in the south must have complained about the law.

The open-air slave market was not far from the port, and you can see ships coming in and out of the port, most of them from continental Europe, the heart of the world today, bringing raw materials from New Orleans and bringing in finished goods to be sold in the southern United States. Made in the UK by One Water, it represents the manufacturing standard in today's world.

"Look at this fabric, isn't it something that the Yankee in the north can spin on? Those Yankees can only make some shoddy things, and no one buys them at all except for their own use, haha! A bearded man with a pipe commented in a playful tone. The white people around all nodded yes, and it could be seen from the looks of these people that this sentence was not a compliment at all, but a heartfelt echo.

"With this kind of thinking, why worry that the Civil War can't be fought?" Sheffield felt that this trip to New Orleans had really gained a lot of knowledge, to be honest, the rift between the north and the south of the United States has been rare, the Sheffield family in the southernmost state of the United States, Louisiana, where slavery is the most powerful, and the distance from the free states in the north is far away, and it will not be affected by those abolitionists for the time being.

The southern slave states, which were adjacent to the Free States, were often harassed by abolitionists from the north, and only by harassment. The slave states, which are now close to the Northern Free States, are often harassed by the Underground Railroad movement. For small slave owners who did not have a few black slaves themselves, the black slaves under their hands were basically equal to the entire property of a white family. No matter how much moral superiority the abolitionists of the North may have, it does not change the essence of this gang of fellows to steal money from the hands of white Southerners. While grabbing the money, we are still telling the white people in the South that we are robbing the money for your own good!

In the Southern Slave States, which are adjacent to the Free State, a new profession has emerged in response to the harassment of the Underground Railroad movement, the slave hunters, whose job is to hunt down fugitive slaves. These black slave hunters are a bit like the bounty hunters in Sheffield's previous novels.

In short, in front of an invisible state border, the tension between the slave states and the free states is deepening, and each side is eager to put the other to death, especially in Ohio and Missouri on the northern border.

Sheffield had his own understanding of this situation, that is, although the southern slave owners used black slave hunters as a response, the initiative was in the hands of the abolitionists in the north. As time goes on, the slave owners will certainly become less and less powerful, at least in the slave states adjacent to the Northern Free States. Slowly it will become abolitionists to gain the upper hand, boiling frogs in warm water!

"The northerners are still quite smart, if the white southerners have been passively defensive, maybe the Civil War can really be avoided!" Entering the open-air slave market in New Orleans, Sheffield immediately smelled a strange smell, the slave market was huge, and there were constantly white slave owners walking back and forth or selling slaves. Rows of neat black slaves were chained, and the locked black slaves knelt on the ground with a blank expression, and of course some black slaves stared at the white people with hatred.

"Young Master of the Sheffield family?" Sheffield had just entered the slave market and was greeted by someone who had greeted her a week earlier, and today the Sheffield family would come to the slave market to pick up slaves.

"Hello, Mr. Derek!" Sheffield nodded enthusiastically and said that although the conditions of the open-air slave market were a little rudimentary, it was very much like a slaughterhouse of a small workshop, and although the analogy was somewhat inappropriate, it was in fact what it was. Pointing to a group of very dishonest black slaves, he asked, "Where did you get these wild and difficult black slaves?" ”

"Those are the ones!" Derek laughed, lowered his head and said with a hint of mystery, "We paid a lot of money to buy these black slaves, and they came on board from the Ivory Coast!" Now the rest are all first-class physical sticks, and they are by no means comparable to some old, weak, sick and disabled! ”

Sheffield nodded silently, no wonder he always felt that these dozens of black slaves were different from ordinary black slaves. Turning his head and glancing meaningfully at the black slave Lincoln, Sheffield Della said in a long voice, "Lincoln, you go and see if there is a black girl you like, there are already a few black slaves on the plantation who have reached the age of starting a family, you can pick a few ...... for them"

"Thank you, young master!" There is no difference between the black slave Lincoln and the average white person, this is all a change in just one month, the environment of the black slave Lincoln has changed, to paraphrase an old saying, the so-called food and clothing, lust, lust, when you can't eat, just think about eating, once your environment has changed, you naturally think more.

Sheffield followed behind Derek with a badge, chatting, "This is the largest slave market in the world, and Mr. Derek is responsible for the operation of the entire slave market, which can be said to be a very developing career......

"Master Sheffield is wrong, since the outbreak of the war with Mexico, the slave trade has been somewhat weak, and at present we are barely able to maintain profits, and the price of slaves may go down......," Derek said tiredly, touching his somewhat bald head.

Not! Sheffield's eyelids moved, and this is useful information! It seems that there is something wrong with the current price of slaves, which historically came to a standstill in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. It seems that the southern United States is too close to the battlefield in Mexico. After all, Mexico today is far from being the belly of the fish in later generations, and it can also fight with the United States. The victory of the United States in the Mexican-American War established the United States as the hegemon of the Americas in one fell swoop.

Whether the United States is the hegemon of the Americas has nothing to do with the Sheffield family, but the price of slaves has a lot to do with the Sheffield family, at this time the black slave Lincoln has begun to select in front of a group of black slaves, in all fairness, Sheffield does not like the smuggling of black slaves from Africa, these people are not slaves, so there is still a great will to resist, far less than the current domestic black slaves to recognize the situation, but at present, Sheffield must expand the scale of production, and manpower is needed to quickly harvest cotton. Protect against the changeable weather in the southern United States.

Louisiana still has plantation owners similar to Sheffield's family, but in Sheffield's view, the potential for development here is far from enough, and he thinks that the only benefit of old Sheffield is that Texas will be a good place to be in the future.

Many familiar faces have come from my Soviet Union, thank you! And thank you for your support, the background of the protagonist of this book is related to the previous book, and some episodes can be recalled! It's a tribute to my miserable book