Slave Auction

ID: 4691 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection ~ Date: 1831

This file appears in: St. Louis Hotel & Exchange: Auctioning Off Lives

This file appears in: St. Louis Hotel & Exchange: Auctioning Off Lives

St. Louis Hotel & Exchange: Auctioning Off Lives

By Brett Todd, Kate Mason & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Numerous 19th-century travelers who frequented New Orleans for business and pleasure described the slave auction block in St. Louis Hotel. Sensationalism aside, visitors recorded their surprise at the…