Slave Auction, Virginia

ID: 6209 ~ Source: WikiCommons ~ Creator: Lefevre James Cranstone ~ Date: 1862

This file appears in: Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

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1862 painting of a Slave Auction by Lefevre James Cranstone

This file appears in: Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

Frontin, An Enslaved Child from the Boré Plantation

By Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

On January 21, 1783, Étienne de Boré, an enslaver and owner of the Boré Plantation located within today’s Audubon Park, visited a public slave auction in order to sell two enslaved boys. Alexandro…