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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.
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!"
Edward Stone (c. 1782 – September 17, 1826), also known as Ned Stone, was an American slave trader. He participated in the interregional slave trade between Maryland, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Stone had a slave jail under his house, which was built in the 1810s near Paris, Kentucky.
"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 ...
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 ...
Two slave traders on horseback escort a group of slaves on foot; originally from Virginia, the slaves were to be offered for sale first in Tennessee (Unidentified artist, 1850, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) It is unclear where Jackson collected the enslaved people he carried south, and in what quantities of people he trafficked.
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.