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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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Sketches of African Americans
Engravings of African American men
"Richmond"
Engraving of Eighth Street
Auction at Charleston
Auction of enslaved people
After the Sale: Slaves Going South
Groups of enslaved people being sent south
"Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of auction
"An American Barber's, Richmond, Virginia"
Engraving of African American barber
"Sketching at a Slave Auction"
Article describing auction
Auction at Richmond
George Bourne declared that illustrations in his Picture of Slavery, first published in 1834, were accurate illustrations of slavery. A clergyman, Bourne became an abolitionist while serving a Presbyterian church in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area.…
Franklin & Armfield
John Armfield and employees guarding a coffle of enslaved men and women being marched southwest.
