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2. New Orleans slave market - Wikipedia

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   Slaves for Sale, 156 Common St., watercolor and ink by draftsman Pietro Gualdi, 1855 "A Slave Pen at New Orleans—Before the Auction, a Sketch of the Past" (Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863) View of the Port at New Orleans, circa 1855, etching from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory 1845 map of New Orleans; the trade was ubiquitous throughout the city but especially brisk in the major hotels and ...

3. Walter Johnson (historian) - Wikipedia

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   Walter Johnson’s Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market breaks down the New Orleans slave market, specifically how slave traders turned humans into products for sale. Johnson begins by describing the daily practice of slave pens, how slaves were treated and categorized in ways to make them more appealing to slave traders.

4. Bernard Kendig - Wikipedia

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   Kendig most likely began in the New Orleans slave-trading business in or before 1839. [5] Between 1852 and 1860 notarial records show that he sold at least 758 people (or about 95 people a year). [ 3 ] [ 5 ] In 1845, "Kendig's auction store" in New Orleans was the site of an attempted murder. [ 6 ]

5. Edmonson sisters - Wikipedia

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   Under inhumane conditions, the siblings were transported by ship to New Orleans, where they were set at a very high price—$1,200 each. [9] New Orleans was the largest slave market in the nation, and well known for selling "fancy girls" (light-skinned enslaved young women) as sex slaves. [4] [12]

6. Henry F. Slatter - Wikipedia

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   Henry Flewellen Slatter (July 26, 1817 – April 11, 1849) was a 19th-century American slave trader. Among other things, Slatter escorted coastwise shipments of people from slave jail of his father Hope H. Slatter in Baltimore to the slave depot of his uncle Shadrack F. Slatter in New Orleans.

7. Jonathan M. Wilson - Wikipedia

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   Moses G. Hindes was a bricklayer, brickmaker, and slave trader of Baltimore in the United States. Hindes who was one of the principals in the American slave-trading firm Wilson & Hindes from 1856 until 1861 when interstate slave trading between Baltimore and New Orleans essentially ceased due to the American Civil War.