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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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Franklin & Armfield
John Armfield and employees guarding a coffle of enslaved men and women being marched southwest.
"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.
