Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 118
112 WHITE SLAVERY were sold for £S0 and ^35 sterling, and two boys were sold for <£40 apiece ; and being in this sad posture led up and down at least one hour and a half, during which time a Dutchman, that was our carpenter, discovered me to some Jews, they increased from £15 to <£75, which was the… … tended I could not go, and did often sit down ;) I say, had not these things been, in all likelihood I had been sold for as much again in the market, and thus I had been dearer, and the difficulty greater to be redeemed. During the time of my being led up and down the market, I was possessed with…
Slavery · Slave trade · Slavery and Islam
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