Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>From the summer of 1832 and to April 1833, Franklin, Armfield, and Co. continued to traffic enslaved people from the Upper South into the Lower Mississippi Valley. Isaac Franklin and his associates knew that cholera put the lives of their captives as well as the profits that they could make by selling them at risk. They gambled anyway, lost several captives, tried to hide their role in spreading cholera, and still made a profit. The pandemic had the ghoulish impact of decreasing the supply of enslaved people and driving up prices for captured bodies. Enslaved people suffered terribly from interstate human trafficking in years without cholera. The pandemic’s first and second waves amplified the horrors that the faced.</jats:p>