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Sale Of Slaves In A Meeting House

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
May
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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Extract of a letter from Rev. S. J. May: "Now, that I am writing, let me tell you a story which I have recently heard. - Brother Leavitt may, perhaps think it worthy of a place in the Emancipator. "A young lady, who has recently returned to this town, from Virginia, where she has been keeping school in a village called _____, states that on the first day of January, 1840, an auction sale of slaves took place in _____. It commenced on the public square, but the weather being very cold, the company, including several ministers of the gospel, with one consent adjourned into the meeting house. The auctioneer took the pulpit, and over the cushion waved his mallet, and made sale of men. The transaction did not escape an adversion there; many were scandalized, not however, because human beings were sold, but because they were sold in a meeting house."