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88 Painting of Enslaved Persons for Sale, 1861

Painting of Enslaved Persons for Sale, 1861

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Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia, 1861, Wikimedia Commons

The English painter Eyre Crowe traveled through the American South in the early 1850s. He was particularly shocked to see the horrors of a slave market where families were torn apart by sale. This painting is based on a sketch he when touring through the South and depicts an enslaved man, several women, and children waiting to be sold at auction.

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