Click2History - Underground Railroad - People Sold At Auction - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>UNDERGROUND RAILROAD</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 4 - PEOPLE SOLD AT AUCTION</font></p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">The Library of Congress contains graphic pictures and photographs of the buying and selling of African-American slaves:</p><ul> <li>Arriving in South Carolina in the 1780s, a group of slaves are <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a52000/3a52000/3a52072r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>slated</b></a> to be sold at Ashley Ferry (outside Charleston).</li><br><br> <li>Others - including men, <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a17000/3a17600/3a17645r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>women</b></a> and children - are <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a00000/3a06000/3a06200/3a06254r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>auctioned off</b></a> as though they were farm implements.</li><br><br> <li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02500/3g02526v.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Advertisements</b></a> highlight virtues of a particular slave.</li><br><br> <li>The chains America threw away when the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/01500/01508v.jpg" target="_blank"><b>did not apply</b></a> to blacks. Some even attempted to argue that American slavery was <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c20000/3c29000/3c29600/3c29682v.jpg" target="_blank"><b>justified</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>White buyers <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a17000/3a17600/3a17639r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>inspect</b></a> a kidnapped African and negotiate a purchase price with African slave traders. </li><br><br> <li>Families were often <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02500/3g02525v.jpg" target="_blank"><b>split up</b></a>. Here a mother pleads: "Buy us too."</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/7/18/07-1741a.gif"><b>In Alexandria</b></a>, Virginia captured Africans were held in "<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00000/00054r.jpg" target="_blank"><b>slave pens</b></a>" as they waited to be sold while in Easton, Maryland many whites gathered for a <a target="_blank" href="images/slave_sale.jpg"><b>slave sale</b></a>.</li></ul> <p>Once slaves were purchased, how did they live? What kind of clothing did they wear? How much food were they allowed?</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="underground_railroad_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="underground_railroad_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="underground_railroad_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>