A first-hand witness of a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia

Dale M. Brumfield
Lessons from History
5 min readMay 22, 2020

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The following is an account of a slave auction conducted March 22, 1852 at Hill’s Auction House, at 15th and Main Streets, in Richmond, Virginia. Transcribed from page 1 of The Anti-Slavery Bugle, vol. 7 no. 30, dated April 10, 1852. It is…

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Dale M. Brumfield
Lessons from History

Anti-death penalty advocate, cultural archaeologist, “American Grotesk” historyteller and author of 12 books. More at www.dalebrumfield.net.