Slave Sale Advertisement
This file appears in: The Levee: Gateway to Uncertainty
An advertisement for a slave auction, similar to the ones Rachel may have seen posted on the levee.
This file appears in: The Levee: Gateway to Uncertainty
The Levee: Gateway to Uncertainty
During the mid-1800’s ships tightly packed the port of New Orleans, according to historian Walter Johnson, “one could walk deck to deck from one end of the city to the other.” All along the docks,…