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Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia (1861), painted from a sketch made 1853 when he was touring the U.S. with British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray Ellyson's map of Richmond, 1856 "Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)
Slave Auction Block in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 71001053 .
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The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 stated that people who were not Christians, or were black, mixed-race, or Native Americans would be classified as slaves (i.e., treated like personal property or chattel), and it was made illegal for white people to marry people of color. [50]
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Tichnor Brothers linen-era postcard. The Slave Auction Block in Fredericksburg, Virginia is a large stone that was used as an auction block in slave auctions.It was located on the corner of William Street and Charles Street, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Fredericksburg Historic District.
This list represents a fraction of the "many hundreds of participants in a cruel and omnipresent" American market. [12] "Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell ...