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  2. John M. Sullivan (politician) - Wikipedia

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    John Sullivan was born in Macomb in 1959. He graduated from Quincy University with a bachelor's degree in history. He went on to work as an agricultural loan officer before joining Sullivan's Auctioneers, the family's successful auction and real estate business.

  3. List of largest slave sales in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the auspices of the U.S. Marshals, 493 people, ranging from centenarian Old Sampson to 15-month-old Margarette, were to be sold from four plantations in Louisiana by auction at the St. Louis Exchange in New Orleans on Saturday, March 20, 1850 (The New Orleans Crescent, March 2, 1850, page 3); according to historian Damian Alan Pargas, there was a subsequent 1852 sale of property owned by ...

  4. History of slavery in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    On January 11, 1865, a state convention approved an ordinance abolishing slavery in Missouri by a vote of 60–4, [6] and later the same day, Governor Thomas C. Fletcher followed up with his own "Proclamation of Freedom". [7] This action effectively marked the end of legal slavery in the state of Missouri.

  5. Rural land sales - Wikipedia

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    The word land is commonly known as "ground considered as property" or "the solid part of the earth's surface not covered by water". Sales is the term used for the exchange of property for an agreed sum. The combination of the three words rural land sales is commonly used in real estate when referring to the sale or acquisition of just land ...

  6. Scramble (slave auction) - Wikipedia

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    The scramble was first done as a form of slave auctioning in the West Indies, during the late 18th century. The scramble would take place on a ship, in a pen, or an enclosed area. The reason captains would sell their captives in a form of an enclosed area was to prevent a revolt against the ship crew and/or to quickly sell off the enslaved. [1]

  7. Great Slave Auction - Wikipedia

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    The Great Slave Auction (also called the Weeping Time[1]) was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia, United States, on March 2 and 3, 1859. Slaveholder and absentee plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler authorized the sale of approximately 436 men, women, children, and infants ...

  8. Auction - Wikipedia

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    An American auctioneer using auction chant at a livestock auction, November 2010. An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described ...

  9. Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Iowa (/ ˈ aɪ. ə w ə / ⓘ EYE-ə-wə) [6] [7] [8] is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the ...