Natchez....The Forks of the Road was unique because slaves werent auctioned, but bargained over by individual buyers and sellers. A young male slave could be bought for about $500 in 1826, and as much as $1,600 in 1861, on the eve of the Civil War. In Barnetts account, written for the Mississippi Historical Society, he quotes New England writer Joseph Holt Ingraham, who visited the slave market in the 1830s. Ingraham described seeing a group of 40 slaves lined up in a semicircle to be inspected by prospective buyers. With their hats in their hands, which hung down by their sides, they stood perfectly still, and in close order, while some gentlemen were passing from one to another examining for the purpose of buying, he wrote. usslave.blogspot/2012/12/slave-markets-history-natchez.html
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