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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Thirty Years a Slave

Thirty Years a Slave

Hughes, Louis

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1547056134
ISBN13: 9781547056132
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 5 2017
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The trader's establishment consisted of an office, a large show-room and a yard in the rear enclosed with a wall of brick fifteen feet high. The principal men of the establishment were the proprietor and the foreman. When slaves were to be exhibited for sale, the foreman was called to the office by means of a bell, and an order given him to bring into the show-room all the slaves in the establishment. This was the work of but a few minutes, and the women were placed in a row on one side of the room and the men on the other. Persons desirous of purchasing them passed up and down between the lines looking the poor creatures over, and questioning them in about the following manner: What can you do? Are you a good cook? seamstress? dairymaid?-this to the women, while the men would be questioned as to their line of work: Can you plow? Are you a blacksmith? Have you ever cared for horses? Can you pick cotton rapidly? Sometimes the slave would be required to open his mouth that the purchaser might examine the teeth and form some opinion as to his age and physical soundness; and if it was suspected that a slave had been beaten a good deal he would be required to step into another room and undress.

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