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"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]
1845 map of New Orleans—Garrison's stand in 1840 and 1841 probably stood near the City Hotel and Hewlett's Exchange, at Camp and Common, close to Canal Street. In May 1840 Garrison was selling slaves in New Orleans, advertising, "Notice to planters: Just received and for sale at my yard, 152 Camp street, being the yard formerly kept by Samuel Hite, a number of likely SLAVES.
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 ...
The Richmond, Virginia slave market was the largest slave market in the Upper South region of the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. [1] An estimated 3,000 to 9,000 slaves were sold out of Virginia annually between 1820 and 1860, many of them through Richmond (as well as Norfolk , Alexandria , Lynchburg , and other Virginia towns). [ 2 ]
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 ...
The ad says, in full, "Two healthy negro slavegals for sale. Good condition and hard work ethic! If you need another pair of hands around the farm/house, you're in luck!"
The second group were slaves who had been working on plantations for a while. Those slaves were usually somewhat adjusted to the slave system but had been abused by the plantation owners – often with excessive brutality. Others ran away when they were being sold suddenly to a new owner.
"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-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...