Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
An authentic issue of the The Liberator, Boston, May 17, 1834, 4pp, disbound, slightly tanned, lightly foxed, VG. From the front page, “Internal Slave Trade” running 2-1/4 columns, reports on the commerce of slavery on the Mississippi. In small part, “After slaves arrive in market, they are subjected to the most degrading examinations. The purchasers will roll up their sleeves and pantaloons, and examine their muscles and joints critically, to ascertain their probable strength, and will even open their mouths and examine their teeth, with the same remarks, and the same unconcern, that they would a horse. ... About a year since, Mr. Robinson saw about a hundred men, women and children, exposed for sale at one time in the market place at Nashville; and while three auctioneers were striking them off, purchasers examined their limbs and bodies with inhuman roughness and unconcern. .... There are planters in the northern slave-states, who will not sell slavefamilies, unless they can dispose of them all together. This they consider more humane,—as it in fact is. ....
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