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William H. Williams advertisement for his slave-trading service and private jail at the Yellow House" (Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express, September 27, 1838) Map produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society showing some slave jails in Washington D.C. 1836; the Yellow House was across the street from the site marked as Neal's jail, [1] location covered up with the "Am I not a ...
"Scene of the Slave Pen in Washington" after imploring that he was a free man, an illustration from Twelve Years A Slave (1853) After he made it back to New York, Solomon Northup wrote and published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). The book was written in three months with the help of David Wilson, a local lawyer and writer. [3]
This 1862 etching of the Louisville wharf shows the view slaves might have had of the city before beginning the steamboat journey to the slave markets of the Deep South Bird's eye view of the city of Memphis, Tennessee 1870; the city's slave pens had mostly been clustered on Adams. Thomas Norman Gadsden, Charleston [228]
William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
There were several slave pens in the District, including the Duke Street pen built by Franklin & Armfield in what became Alexandria, Virginia (following the retrocession); Washington Robey's jail, which was often used by Joseph Neal; and the Yellow House of the Williams brothers.
Together with Williams brothers' Yellow House, and the slave jail of Franklin & Armfield in Alexandria, District of Columbia, the national capital of the United States was one of the busiest and most prominent slave-trading hubs in the country by the 1830s. [6] These two, along with "McCandless's tavern in Georgetown," were considered "notorious."
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[25] During the Civil War, slave pens were used by the Union Army to imprison Confederate soldiers. For instance, slave pens were used for this purpose in St. Louis, Missouri and Alexandria, Virginia. [25] In Natchez, Mississippi, the Forks of the Road slave market was used by the Union soldiers to offer the formerly enslaved protection and ...