{"id":1326,"date":"2023-07-07T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:08:35","slug":"slavery-activity-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/slavery-activity-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery: Activity 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Slave Sales<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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History Through…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

…Primary Sources: Register of Slave Sales<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although the first African captives apparently arrived in British North America in 1619, large scale imports from Africa began in the early eighteenth century. Between 1716 and 1740, slave traders brought approximately 85,000 African captives into the colonies, with about half taken to Virginia. A second wave of imports took place between 1751 and 1775, when about 115,000 slaves were brought into the colonies, two-thirds of whom arrived in South Carolina. In the 1780s and 1790s, Spanish planters brought some 25,000 slaves into Louisiana. At the very beginning of the nineteenth century, prior to enactment in 1808 of a ban on the African slave trade, another 40,000 slaves were imported into Charleston, South Carolina. An unknown number of slaves arrived in the colonies after the African slave trade was banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some slave sale advertisements reveal the disregard with which slave family ties were respected. An 1859 Savannah, Georgia ad states “slaves will be sold separate, or in lots, as best suits the purchaser.” This same ad allow us to explore naming patterns as well as the correlation between slaves age, gender, health, skills, and prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.<\/strong><\/td>Name<\/strong><\/td>Age<\/strong><\/td>Remarks<\/strong><\/td>Price ($)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Lunesta<\/td>37<\/td>Prime Rice Planter<\/td>1270.00<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Violent<\/td>16<\/td>Housework & Nursemaid<\/td>900.00<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Lizzie<\/td>30<\/td>Rice, unsound<\/td>300.00<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Minda<\/td>27<\/td>Cotton, Prime woman<\/td>1200.00<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Adam<\/td>28<\/td>Cotton, Prime young man<\/td>1100.00<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Abel<\/td>41<\/td>Rice Hand, Eyesight Poor<\/td>675.00<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Tanney<\/td>22<\/td>Prime cotton Hand<\/td>950.00<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Flementina<\/td>39<\/td>Good cook, stiff knee<\/td>400.00<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Lanney<\/td>34<\/td>prime cotton hand<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Sally<\/td>10<\/td>Handy in Kitchen<\/td>675.00<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>Maccabey<\/td>35<\/td>Prime Man, Fair Carpenter<\/td>980.00<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>Dorcas Judy<\/td>25<\/td>Seamstress, Hand in the House<\/td>800.00<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>Happy<\/td>60<\/td>Blacksmith<\/td>575.00<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>Mowden<\/td>15<\/td>Prime Cotton Boy<\/td>700.00<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Bills<\/td>21<\/td>Handy with Mules<\/td>900.00<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/td>Theopolis<\/td>39<\/td>Rice Hand, gets Fits<\/td>575.00<\/td><\/tr>
17<\/td>Coolidge<\/td>29<\/td>Rice Hand and Blacksmith<\/td>1275.00<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>Bessie<\/td>69<\/td>Infirm, Sews<\/td>250.00<\/td><\/tr>
19<\/td>Infant<\/td>1<\/td>Strong Likely Boy<\/td>400.00<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>Samson<\/td>41<\/td>Prime Man, Good with Stock<\/td>975.00<\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>Callie May<\/td>27<\/td>Prime Woman, Rice<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>Honey<\/td>14<\/td>Prime girl, Hearing poor<\/td>850.00<\/td><\/tr>
23<\/td>Angelina<\/td>16<\/td>Prime girl, House or Field<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
24<\/td>Virgil<\/td>21<\/td>Prime Field Hand<\/td>1100.00<\/td><\/tr>
25<\/td>Tom<\/td>40<\/td>Rice Hand, Lame Leg<\/td>750.00<\/td><\/tr>
26<\/td>Noble<\/td>11<\/td>Handy Boy<\/td>900.00<\/td><\/tr>
27<\/td>Judge Lesh<\/td>55<\/td>Prime Blacksmith<\/td>800.00<\/td><\/tr>
28<\/td>Booster<\/td>43<\/td>Fair Mason, Unsound<\/td>600.00<\/td><\/tr>
29<\/td>Big Kate<\/td>37<\/td>Housekeepr and Nurse<\/td>950.00<\/td><\/tr>
30<\/td>Melie Ann<\/td>19<\/td>Housework, Smart yellow girl<\/td>1250.00<\/td><\/tr>
31<\/td>Deacon<\/td>26<\/td>Prime Rice Hand<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
32<\/td>Coming<\/td>19<\/td>Prime Cotton Hand<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
33<\/td>Mabel<\/td>47<\/td>Prime Cotton Hand<\/td>800.00<\/td><\/tr>
34<\/td>Uncle Tim<\/td>60<\/td>Fair Hand with Mules<\/td>600.00<\/td><\/tr>
35<\/td>Abe<\/td>27<\/td>Prime Cotton Hand<\/td>1000.00<\/td><\/tr>
36<\/td>Tennes<\/td>29<\/td>Prime Rice Hand and Coachman<\/td>1250.00<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sight and Sound<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph of newspaper advertisement from the 1780s(?) for the sale of slaves at Ashley Ferry outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Slave Auction<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This illustration, from a London newspaper in 1856, depicts an enslaved woman being auctioned off before a crowd of men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSlave auction at Richmond, Virginia,\u201d Illustration from The Illustrated London News,<\/em> September 27, 1856, p. 315. Library of Congress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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