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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 ...
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.
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
Price, Birch & Co., "dealers in slaves" Alexandria, Virginia, photographed c. 1862 In addition to private jails, enslaved people were often held in public jails, such as a 40-year-old fugitive man named Monday who fought "like the Devil when arrested" and who was held in the jail of Walker County, Alabama (The Democrat, Huntsville, July 7, 1847)
Nashville was never a leading slave market, but as late as 1860 the city served as a sort of fulcrum for the domestic trade. [36] Louisiana became the 18th U.S. state on April 30, 1812. [37] Mississippi was admitted to the Union as the 20th state on December 10, 1817. [38]
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