 The highest value, $1,350, was placed upon a forty-year-old plantation blacksmith, followed by $ 1,300 for a much younger carpenter. It was a cold business, and medical examinations were de rigeur. An asthmatic slave was worth only $600, and a woman with...  Negro History, 1553-1903 - Page 471969 - 83 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Enslaved persons - 1859 - 136 pages
...paley look ; — taking his face all in all, the paliness and the redness combined, make him look much as if he had been boiled in the same pot with a red cabbage. Mr. Walsh mounted the stand, and announced the terms of the sale, — " Onethird cash, the remainder... | |
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...peely look; so that, taking his face all in all, the peeliness and the redness combined, he looks much as if he had been boiled in the same pot with a red cabbage. In the opinion of the Tribune reporter, that slaves were sold in families was as much policy as kindness,... | |
 | Malcolm Bell, Jr. - History - 2004 - 701 pages
...peely look; so that, taking his face all in all, the peeliness and the redness combined, he looks much as if he had been boiled in the same pot with a red cabbage. In the opinion of the Tribune reporter, that slaves were sold in families was as much policy as kindness,... | |
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