It's interesting to see where the issues with law enforcement started. It shows that this is nothing knew.

Just so you all know "picinniny" was used as a slur for prepubescent black girls back then.

He proudly signed his name.

They are advertising a murder about to happen because they can't stop it... this blows my mind!

ugh why. I am ashamed of what we used to be

OMG! THEY LITERALLY ARE TREATING THEM LIKE TOOLS! JUST FARM TOOLS!

the sentance likely young women with three children (CHILDREN) also at the same time on the SAME TERMS three Mules. THEY ARE ACTING AS IF HUMAN SLAVES ARE THE SAME VALUE AS HORSES OR 'MULES'

THIS IS MAKING ME SICK!

"which will be at the purchaser's option" how could people be so cynical and cruel?

Dont downvote these - they need to be seen as a sample of how men treat fellow men

The only positive (and I find it hard to use the term at all) is that they appear to be keeping families together. It is so sad to think people lived their entire lives like this, never knowing freedom, never having any real hope to.

Full hand meaning full time worker. 3-4 hand was like a small child, be it male or female.

it breaks my heart to see how these poor people were treated..cant even imagine what they went through

Call at the tavern for me. This is the way you got in touch with people back then, leave a message for them at the tavern they frequent. So weird to try and imagine this now!

Hmmnnn...I wonder how so many are described as "mulatress and mulatroo" - I'm afraid they may be products of master/slave rape since whites and blacks did not inter-marry at the time. So heartbreaking to see a little family listed as 5, 6 & 7.

can anyone explain why "f" is used in some places ('reafonable') instead of 's' ? i've noticed this in other posts on here as well.

I wish we never brought them here ,,just imagine a world where violent protest were rare ,and music wasn't bragging about fat a*s hoes ,baggy clothes,not to mention the left over 400 billon dollars social services would have to help pore white families out ..if only

I heard that children as young as 4 were taken from the UK to Australia during the first and second world war. to work as slaves! They were beaten, threatened, starved and scared beyond words!

Griff, apparently, is another word for mulatto.

Why do they use the letter ‘f’ instead of ‘s’ in most instances?

Marlow was an engineer at the age of 12?

We must always remember that Little Joe and Simon, Little Peter, Moses and Morris, Alfred, Frank and Long John Major were human beings - not chattels - things like this are often the only record of their existance