garrison introduced "the black list," a column devoted to printing short reports of "the barbarities of slavery—kidnappings, whippings, murders." for instance, garrison reported that francis todd, a shipper from garrison's home town of newburyport, massachusetts, was involved in the domestic slave trade, and that he had recently had slaves shipped from baltimore to new orleans in the coastwise trade on his ship the "francis". (this was completely legal. an expanded domestic trade, "breeding" slaves in maryland and virginia for shipment south, replaced the importation of african slaves, prohibited in 1808; see slavery in the united states#slave trade.)