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Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia, oil, 20¾ x 31½ inches Lefevre James Cranstone, Slave Auction, Virginia. Portions of the Randolph's Tuckahoe plantation were subdivided into smaller tracts and sold. Upon completion of an anticipated sale in 1842, enslaved people were to be put up for sale. [34]
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 ...
Remnants of the slave quarter at Faunsdale Plantation near Faunsdale, Alabama. Famous landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted had this recollection of a visit to plantations along the Georgia coast in 1855: In the afternoon, I left the main road, and, towards night, reached a much more cultivated district.
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Slave traders traveled to farms and small towns to buy enslaved people to bring to market. [2]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...