Aboard a Mississippi steamer of antebellum days
The German sketch in Appletons Journal recounts a Natchez planter's auction of a Black mother and her child on a Mississippi river steamer. A poker game in the saloon triggers a brutal scene as spectators bet on the girl and boy and a raffle decides their fate amid guilt and tension.
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