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Slave Auction at Hewns Exchange Exposes Brutal Household Trade
Eyewitness accounts describe a public sale in New Orleans where about 100 enslaved people including women and children were auctioned to settle debts. The piece recounts the fates of families separated by price, highlighting the suffering of a young woman and her husband and the broader moral outrage in a Christian city.
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