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Slavery and the Making of AmericaPicture of slave women cultivating a village garden in Central Africa, Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library
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This trade in niggers is a bad business for a fellow that’s got any heart. Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents of a Slave Girl, 1861, Chapter 19.



"Slaves Sold at Auction," engraving, Harper's Weekly, July 13, 1861. Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College. With permission from The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.



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