SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Parties
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Mail order
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Auctions
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Prisons
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Detailed explanation-1: -Before being sold, the enslaved were often kept in pens or private jails, sometimes for days or weeks. Then they were sold directly from the pens or marched to a nearby auction. Thousands of sales took place each year, right in the hearts of American cities and towns, on the steps of courthouses and city halls.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were two methods of selling enslaved people: Auction-An auctioneer sold enslaved people individually or in lots (as a group), with people being sold to the highest bidder. Scramble-Here the enslaved people were kept together in an enclosure. Buyers paid the captain a fixed sum beforehand.
Detailed explanation-3: -Betts & Gregory, an auction house located on Franklin Street in Richmond, advertises the current prices for enslaved African Americans in March 1861. Prices ranged from $1, 600 to $1, 300, the latter price being for “Boys 4 feet high."