Sold Down the River
by bam
The phrase is not a metaphor. For decades this water carried enslaved people from the Upper South to the markets of Natchez and New Orleans, and to be sent down it meant separation from family, almost always permanently. What the domestic slave trade was, how the river served it, and why the ordinary phrase carries what it does.
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