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208: 19: 41:, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner. Note: In compensation for advertising the sale, housing the "product" prior to the auction, and managing the transactions, traders typically took 2.5% of the sales. 49: 231:, consisting of a plantation and 256 enslaved people: "The terms and conditions of the sale were simply 'cash on the spot'—no provisions for families to be kept together were specified." 431: 441: 329: 284:. Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 174 (2.5% for brokers), 354–355 (Bond). 421: 207: 426: 215:, 493 people, ranging from centenarian Old Sampson to 15-month-old Margarette, were to be sold from four plantations in Louisiana by auction at the 289: 227:, March 2, 1850, page 3); according to historian Damian Alan Pargas, there was a subsequent 1852 sale of property owned by the same man, 436: 280: 241: 212: 18: 306: 252: 45: 101: 53: 191: 111: 123: 151: 370:"Disposing of Human Property: American Slave Families and Forced Separation in Comparative Perspective" 247: 186: 168: 106: 397: 216: 389: 323: 285: 275: 181: 381: 369: 146: 22:
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Macon
dynamic list
adding missing items
reliable sources
Charleston, South Carolina
John Ball Jr.
Jervey, Waring & White
Ann Ball
Albany, Georgia
Joseph Bond
Great Slave Auction
Savannah, Georgia
Pierce Mease Butler
Joseph Bryan

U.S. Marshals
St. Louis Exchange
New Orleans
P.M. Lapice
List of American slave traders
Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball


Bancroft, Frederic
Slave Trading in the Old South
ISBN
978-1-64336-427-8
"How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S."

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