Slave Auction, Richmond, Virginia, 1862
Campell and Rice note that Richmond, the capital of Virginia, was the second largest slave-trading market in the South, and many visitors witnessed auctions there. This oil painting was made by an English artist, Levevre J. Cranstone (1845-1867), who probably based his painting on a work by the artist Eyre Crowe. A better reproduction, in color, is published in Estill Pennington, Look Away: reality and sentiment in Southern art (Atlanta, 1989).
Image Title
Slave Auction, Richmond, Virginia, 1862
RegID
SI-OB-757
Date
1862
Title
Slave Auction, Richmond, Virginia, 1862
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), plate 1, p. x.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia--Richmond
Reproduced In
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), plate 1, p. x.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0245