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Slave markets and slave jails in the United States
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Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total abolition of slavery in 1865. Slave pens, also kn
Price, Birch & Co., "dealers in slaves" Alexandria, Virginia, photographed c. 1862
Price, Birch & Co., "dealers in slaves" Alexandria, Virginia, photographed c. 1862
In addition to private jails, enslaved people were often held in public jails, such as a 40-year-old fugitive man named Monday who fought "like the De
In addition to private jails, enslaved people were often held in public jails, such as a 40-year-old fugitive man named Monday who fought "like the Devil when arrested" and who was held in the jail of Walker County, Alabama (The Democrat, Huntsville, July 7, 1847)
Claimed to be Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave pen ("The Old Negro Mart" Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 27, 1907)
Claimed to be Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave pen ("The Old Negro Mart" Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 27, 1907)
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buc
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange
Charleston Workhouse
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The Charleston Workhouse was a facility in Charleston, South Carolina, used primarily for the imprisonment and punishment of enslaved individuals. Located on Magazine Street, adjacent to the Old Charl
Charleston Workhouse in Harper's Weekly (1865)
Charleston Workhouse in Harper's Weekly (1865)
"Committed to the Work-House, as Runaways" Charleston Daily Courier, March 13, 1806
"Committed to the Work-House, as Runaways" Charleston Daily Courier, March 13, 1806
Three newspaper listings for estate sales to be held at the negro mart attached to the Charleston Workhouse yard (Charleston Daily Courier, January 29
Three newspaper listings for estate sales to be held at the negro mart attached to the Charleston Workhouse yard (Charleston Daily Courier, January 29, 1841)
"The Hospital Problem" Charleston Daily News, August 9, 1872
"The Hospital Problem" Charleston Daily News, August 9, 1872