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This American slave trade auction advertised for sale or tempory hire by their owner. Buyers often paid $2,000 for a skilled, healthy slave. Such auctions often separated family members, many of whom never saw their loved ones again.

Some people think that the slaves had no feelings,that they bore their children as animals bear their young and that their was no heart-break when the children were torn away from their parents.But that isn't so.The slaves loved their famillys and the happiest times of their lives was when they could sit at their cabin doors when a days work was done and sang the old slave songs like 'Swing low sweet chariot' and 'Nobody Knows what trouble I've seen'. Children learned these songs and sang them only as a Negro child could.That was the slaves only happiness, a happiness that for many of them sadly did not last.

Crowded, unsanitary conditions were the rules for slaves bound for the Americas on slave ships. Human cargo was often packed so tightly that it was impossible to move. The slave trade proved a big business it went over 200 years! More than 10 million slaves were forcably transported to the Americas before the whole business stopped it the United States in 1808.

The Slave Trade was a sad and cruel time. There was lots of heart break and sadness from family members being torn apart.

Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot, Comin' for to carry me home,

I looked over Jordan,
And WHAT did I see,
Comin' for to carry me home,
A band of angels comin' after me,
Comin' for to carry me home. Reapeat Chorus

AGE	VALUE	AGE	VALUE
18	800	35	525
19	850	36	500
20	900	37	475
21	875	38	450
22	850	39	425
23	825	40	400
24	800	41	375
25	775	42	350
26	750	43	325
27	725	44	300
28	700	45	275
29	675	46	250
30	650	47	225
31	625	48	200
32	600	49	175
33	575	50	150
34	550	60	50