African Slave Trade Opened: Multiple Slave Dealer Ads

Chilling compilation of three slave trade advertisements documenting the domestic and international trafficking of enslaved people. The top ad by Brown & Taylor announces "40 Negroes" just arrived from Missouri, categorizing human beings as "Seamstresses, Cooks, Washers and Ironers, House Servants, Field Hands, &c." The middle ad by John D. Fondren offers enslaved people from Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia, boasting constant supply and inviting buyers to "have their pick and choice." Most horrifying is the bottom ad titled "AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE OPENED" by A.H. Forrest & Co, advertising enslaved people "just received from Virginia, South Carolina and Missouri" and promising to "supply all with just such Negroes as they may wish, at any time." These ads reveal the massive commercial infrastructure of slavery, treating human beings as inventory to be bought and sold at will. Essential historical documentation of America's original sin, available in three sizes with your choice of black or silver aluminum frame.