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Listing for the Joseph Bond sale - "Sales of Land and Negroes in South Western Georgia," Albany Patriot via Macon Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1860 This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner.
Elihu Creswell (c. 1811 – June 19, 1851) was an "extensive negro trader" of antebellum Louisiana, United States.Raised in an elite family in the South Carolina Upcountry, Creswell eventually moved to New Orleans, where he specialized in "acclimated" slaves, meaning people who had spent most of their lives enslaved in the Mississippi River basin so they were more likely to have acquired ...
"Slave Transfer Agencies" listed in an 1854 Southern business directory, including Thomas Foster in New Orleans, a C. M. Rutherford partnership, and G. M. Noel in Memphis Eyre Crowe, "Slave sale, Charleston, S.C.," published in The Illustrated London News, Nov. 29, 1856: The flag tied to a post beside the steps reads "Auction This Day by Alonzo ...
Alexandre Lindo, a ship captain for two slave ships, records selling an entire ship of captives in four hours, which was the largest number of enslaved people sold until 1805 when thirty plantation owners bought an entire human cargo's worth in one hour, the slaves from both ships being sold by the scramble method.
For instance Matthew Garrison, who was both a slave trader and jail owner in Louisville, Kentucky, submitted a bill for "boarding slaves" to the county chancery court adjudicating a dispute over estate slaves, [12] while W. H. DeJarnatt advertised that four slaves he was listing for sale could "be seen at the house of M. Garrison". [13]
Florida teen advertises classmates as 'slaves for sale' on Craigslist. Kelsey Weekman. May 1, 2017 at 7:59 AM.
A coffle, sometimes called a platoon or a drove, was a group of enslaved people chained together and marched from one place to another by owners or slave traders. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These troupes, sometimes called shipping lots before they were moved, ranged in size from a fewer than a dozen to 200 or more enslaved people.
One index of slave prices at the Richmond market in 1849 had several price gradations for female slaves but only two subdivisions for male slaves: No. 1 men and "plow boys 5 ft 2 inches." [16] Pan toting: Food co-opted from slavers by the enslaved. Pickaninny: An enslaved child.