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English: A slave auction, out of doors. The white auctioneer stands on a stage holding a gavel; with his other hand he points at a group of black slaves. A large American flag flies in the center of the picture.
Date
Source Engraving from the anonymous anti-slavery book The suppressed book about slavery! published by Carleton, New York, 1864.
Author Van Ingen Snyder

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A slave auction in the United States.

1 January 1864Gregorian

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