you look at the vicksburg records, natchez, mississippi. over and over again, you are finding people when asked for their place of birth they are saying eastern shores of maryland. frederick, maryland, baltimore ireland, washington, d.c. with that represents is the internal or domestic slave trade that occurred after 1808. after 1808 the transatlantic slave trade was ended so in this particular region which was formally based on the cultivation of tobacco tobacco cultivation was no longer as lucrative as it once was. this was the oldest area of what was considered the self so they considered themselves to have a surplus slave population. as is were the largest amount of slaves were. virginia have the largest black population. but what occurred during that period is that many of the slaveowners that no longer needed that surplus labor, they began to sell that surplus enslaved labor to the new states of the expanding cotton belt. initially they would still them -- so them down to georgia so you would have frederick douglass talking about bein

you look at the vicksburg records, natchez, mississippi. over and over again, you are finding people when asked for their place of birth they are saying eastern shores of maryland. frederick, maryland, baltimore washington, d.c. with that represents is the internal or domestic slave trade that occurred after 1808. after 1808 the transatlantic slave trade was ended so in this particular region which was formally based on the cultivation of tobacco, tobacco cultivation was no longer as lucrative as it once was. this was the oldest area of what was considered the self so they considered themselves to have a surplus slave population. as is were the largest amount of slaves were. virginia have the largest black population. but what occurred during that period is that many of the slaveowners that no longer needed that surplus labor, they began to sell that surplus enslaved labor to the new states of the expanding cotton belt. initially they would still them -- so them down to georgia so you would have frederick douglass talking about being sold t

tell me needed to lobby his supervisor to get gas money to drive from jackson mississippi to the natchez mississippi area -- >> what you're telling me is they didn't get support from their supervisors? >> that was the implication of his comment to me. he was asking me to give him my unpublished notes so he could convince his supervisor that he had enough cause to come down from jackson to natchez. >> what kind of legacy do we leave this country if the government doesn't clear these cases investigate these cases properly? >> well you know as you reported there's really -- we don't know how many of these cases are unresolved. and there's countless communities around the south and throughout the united states where these incidents have occurred. and the message to those communities is that white people can kill black people and get away with it. and continue to live their lives, walk among the victims' families and friends and be a respected member of the country. >> your father paul greenberg was a special assistant to martin luther king in the southern christian leadership conference in t