Holding Pen or Cells for Slaves Awaiting Sale, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863
Photo of cells/pens where slaves were held prior to being sent to markets in the Lower South. Campbell and Rice write that slave traders in such upper south cities as Alexandria, Richmond, and Norfolk were the main suppliers of slaves for New Orleans, the largest slave market. In Alexandria, the widely known firm of Price, Birch & Company collected slaves in crowded pens before they were 'sold south' (p. 138). For a companion photo, see image Dugan-2 on this website
Image Title
Holding Pen or Cells for Slaves Awaiting Sale, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863
RegID
SI-OB-755
Date
1863
Title
Holding Pen or Cells for Slaves Awaiting Sale, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863
Source
Published in E.D.C. Campbell, Jr. and K.S. Rice,eds., Before Freedom Came: African-american Life in the Antebellum South (Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), fig. 118, p. 138; original photograph located in Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia
Reproduced In
E.D.C. Campbell, Jr. and K.S. Rice,eds., Before Freedom Came: African-american Life in the Antebellum South (Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), fig. 118, p. 138
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0246