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In New Orleans, most sales were made between September and May. Buyers visited the slave pen and inspected enslaved people prior to the sale. [5] People were held until their means of transportation was arranged. They were transported in groups by boat, walked to their new owners, or a combination of the two. They were moved in groups in a ...
Bernard Moore Campbell (c. 1810 – May 30, 1890) and Walter L. Campbell (b. c. 1807) operated an extensive slave-trading business in the antebellum U.S. South.B. M. Campbell, in company with Austin Woolfolk, Joseph S. Donovan, and Hope H. Slatter, has been described as one of the "tycoons of the slave trade" in the Upper South, "responsible for the forced departures of approximately 9,000 ...
171–191 South High Street is a pair of historic buildings in Downtown Columbus, Ohio.The commercial structures have seen a wide variety of retail and service uses through the 20th century, including shoe stores, groceries, opticians, hatters, jewelers, a liquor store, and a car dealership.
The Birmingham pen trade evolved in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and its surrounding area in the 19th century. "Pen" is the old term for what is now generally referred to as a nib, and for over a century the city was the world's leading manufacturer of steel nibs for dip pens , also making nibs in brass, bronze, and other alloys.
Pages in category "19th-century American merchants" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 423 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lynch's slave pen was a 19th-century slave pen, or slave jail, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, that held enslaved men, women, and children while they waited to be sold. Bernard M. Lynch , a prominent Saint Louis slave trader, owned the slave pen.
Pierce Mease Butler, whose slaves were sold in the auction, and his wife, Frances Kemble Butler, c. 1855 The Great Slave Auction (also called the Weeping Time [1]) was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia, United States, on March 2 and 3, 1859.
In 1846, James H. Birch was co-owner of the United States Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 4th. [17] [18] In 1851 and 1852 he advertised Piney Point Pavilion, also known as Potomac Pavilion at Piney Point, as a resort destination. [19] [20] In 1856, Birch was the captain of the auxiliary guard in Washington. [21]