They originated a special branch of slave-trading for this trade and the white aristocrats of Virginia and the Carolinas made more money by this business during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries than in any other way.
This passage addresses the economic motivations behind the slave trade in Virginia and the Carolinas.
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