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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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Nubian Slave
After his escape north, Henry Brown collaborated with Boston artists to create a moving panorama, The Mirror or Slavery, that he exhibited in New England and through England to explain the evils of chattel slavery. Part of his panorama may have been…
Slaves Waiting for Sale
Enslaved women, men, and children waiting to be sold at auction
"In the Richmond Slave Market"
Sketch of enslaved people in auction room
"Slaves Waiting for Sale, Virginia"
Sketch of enslaved people
Sketches in the Free and Slave States of America
Engravings to accompany article
"The Charleston Slave Market"
Engraving of slave auction