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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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"An American Barber's, Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of African American barber
"In the Richmond Slave Market"
Sketch of enslaved people in auction room
"Richmond"
Engraving of Eighth Street
"Sale of Negroes"
The Southern Planter quoted a Warrenton (Va.) Whig report that Dickinson, Hill, & Co. "reached the enormous sum of two millions [dollars]" in sales. The Whig estimated that the gross sales of Richmond's slave traders exceeded four million dollars.
"Sketching at a Slave Auction"
Article describing auction
"Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of auction
"Slaves Waiting for Sale, Virginia"
Sketch of enslaved people
"The Charleston Slave Market"
Engraving of slave auction
A Catalogue of Anti-Slavery publications in America (title page)
Abolitionist Samuel May Jr, the compiler, sent this copy to fellow abolitionist Lysander Spooner with a note that “give me additions to this catalogue, or corrections of it, I shall be much obliged.”
