Dr. Mog
Researcher at moggerdom and zoomerology
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I unequivocally disapprove of racism. What I am posing here is a profoundly thought-provoking inquiry that has sparked my curiosity after delving into the distressing hardships my dear negros had to endure in the past.
To get an idea for the scale of variation and the kind of characteristics that would influence slave prices, take a look at this extract from an abolitionist's account of a slave auction in Montgomery, Alabama held on March 24th, 1854:
There are 23 slaves listed here, fetching an average price of $721 each (some are sold together); the average for an adult male slave, however, is closer to $1,000; adult women just $624, and a woman in her 40s is worth more or less the same as a little girl aged 4. Slaves in this particular auction sold for as little as $300 (a 4 year old girl and a 40 year old woman) to as much as $1,600 (the "perfect aged" 40 year old man).Woman and small child, $1050; man aged 19, $950; man and wife aged 18 and 17, $2000; boy aged 14, $640; girl aged 10, $525: man aged 24, $860; boy aged 11, white, $585; boy aged 11, white, $625; woman aged 25, $900; man and little boy, aged 50, $1020; woman age 46, $395; man, with the gravel , aged 19, $700; man, perfect aged 40, $1600; woman 40, girl 8, $600; man aged 27, $1410; boy aged 12, $725; girl aged 4,$300; girl good looking, aged 14, $855; girl, a little blacker, aged 15, $845. [from The Liberator, "From the Car Leader", April 21, 1854]