THE CUSTOM OF BUYING AND SELLING SLAVES—
VIRGINIA'S ATTITUDE (Concluded)
Approaching the subject from another side, and reviewing all the
sources of evidence, we may reach certain fairly accurate conclusions.
At the close of the Revolution, Virginia was the largest slaveholding
state in the Union. There soon grew up the conviction that in the
dispersion or colonization beyond her borders of at least a large
portion of this population lay the only method of effectually solving
the slavery and racial problems. In consequence of this condition,
various movements were evolved, some designedly for the attainment of
these objects and others, while without such purpose, yet working to
the same end.