I just get my pistol and shoot him right down
Eric Foner: Slave-Dealing, 22 March 2018
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
by Anne C. Bailey.
Cambridge, 197 pp., £19.99, November 2017,978 1 316 64348 8 Show More
by Anne C. Bailey.
Cambridge, 197 pp., £19.99, November 2017,
“... per year. George, Sue and their two young sons together went for $2480. The sale was managed by Joseph Bryan, a prominent slave dealer whose occupation does not seem to have impeded his acceptance by Savannah’s white residents – he was also the city’s chief of police. For several days, local hotels were filled with potential buyers, who made the ... ”