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What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

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What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859

Name: What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859
Author: Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

Slave trade -- United States; Slavery -- Georgia

NAME.     AGE.        REMARKS.
     1. George,   27   Prime Cotton Planter.
     2. Sue,      26   Prime Rice Planter.
     3. George,    6   Boy Child.
     4. Harry,     2   Boy Child.


The manner of buying was announced to be bidding a certain price
a-piece for the whole lot. Thus, George and his family were started at
$300, and were finally sold at $600 each, being $2,400 for the four. To
get an idea of the relative value of each one, we must suppose George
worth $1,200, Sue worth $900, Little George worth $200, and Harry worth
$100. Owing, however, to some misapprehension on the part of the buyer,
as to the manner of bidding, he did not take the family at this figure,
and they were put up and sold again, on the second day, when they
brought $620 each, or $2,480 for the whole--an advance of $80 over the
first sale.

Robert, and Luna his wife, who were announced as having "goitre,
otherwise very prime," brought the round sum of $1,005 each. But that
your readers may have an idea of the exact manner in which things
are done, I append a couple of pages of the catalogue used on this
occasion, which you can print verbatim:


      99--Kate's John, aged 30; rice, prime man.
     100--Betsey, 29; rice, unsound.
     101--Kate, 6.
     102--Violet, 3 months.
             Sold for $510 each.
     103--Wooster, 45; rice hand, and fair mason.
     104--Mary, 40; cotton hand.
             Sold for $300 each.
     105--Commodore Bob, aged; rice hand.
     106--Kate, aged; cotton.
     107--Linda, 19; cotton, prime young woman.
     108--Joe, 13; rice, prime boy.
             Sold for $600 each.
     109--Bob, 30; rice.
     110--Mary, 25; rice, prime woman.
             Sold for $1,135 each.
     111--Anson, 49; rice--ruptured, one eye.
     112--Violet, 55; rice hand.
             Sold for $250 each.
     113--Allen Jeffrey, 46; rice hand and sawyer in steam mill.
     114--Sikey, 43; rice hand.
     115--Watty, 5; infirm legs.
             Sold for $520 each.
     116--Rina, 18; rice, prime young woman.
     117--Lena, 1.
             Sold for $645 each.
     118--Pompey, 31; rice--lame in one foot.
     119--Kitty, 30; rice, prime woman.
     120--Pompey, Jr., 10; prime boy.
     121--John, 7.
     122--Noble, 1; boy.
             Sold for $580 each.
     341--Goin, 39; rice hand.
     342--Cassander, 35; cotton hand--has fits.
     343--Emiline, 19; cotton, prime young woman.
     344--Judy, 11; cotton, prime girl.
             Sold for $400 each.
     345--Dorcas, 17; cotton, prime woman.
     346--Joe, 3 months.
             Sold for $1,200 each.
     347--Tom, 22; cotton hand. Sold for $1,260.
     348--Judge Will, 55; rice hand. Sold for $325.
     349--Lowden, 54; cotton hand.
     350--Hagar, 50; cotton hand.
     351--Lowden, 15; cotton, prime boy.
     352--Silas, 13; cotton, prime boy.
     353--Lettia, 11; cotton, prime girl.
             Sold for $300 each.
     354--Fielding, 21; cotton, prime young man.

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What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859

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