ilable with the principles of just

The city of Washington licenses persons to "traffic in slaves for profit"! The trade is carried on between Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Ken

at Norfolk, Va.), Jan. 24, 1848, app

keeping and accommodation of negroes, both male and female (the apartments being entirely separate), which are brought to this market for sale. This building is admirably adapted to the object proposed, having airy and pleasant r

for sale, such negroes as may be in demand in this market, embracing every description of house and fie

make exchanges, giving or receiving such boot as the differen

prices paid for negroes o

W. H

ld do well to give me a call before selling. I will also attend to shipping of negroes to any of the Southern ports, free of charge, when left with me; as I

Appe

taken from a Ne

and boarding-house, 159, Gravier-

avorable terms. The building is a large three-story brick house, and very commodious as a slave depo

Republican," St. Lo

highest prices for negroes. They have also a good secure yard, with a strong jail attached, and are prepared to board negroes sent to this

y & M

Olive-

nforms us, that the United States jail in the District of Columbia is frequently used for the purpose of stori

ster, and well acquainted with the care of horses. Persons wishing to purchase will app

rom these advertisements, which constitute b

in the District of Columbia advertise for twelve hundred negroes, and

s having likely servants to dispose of will find it their interest to give us a call, as we will g

Amfield,

of the same paper

to forty years of age. Persons having negroes to dispose of will find it to their advantage to give me a call

H. Ric

negroes for the Louisiana and Mississippi market. Himself or an

. Wil

ne 24, 1843, Mr. Rich

s having negroes to sell will find it to their interest to give him a call before they sell. I can be always found at my res

. Ric

umber, July 22, 18

imes give the highest market price in cash for likely negroes, mechanics and house servants included. Himself or agent can

s Wil

raders. The original of all of these advertisements will be found at

he highest cash prices for all likely negroes that are slaves for l

atter, Pra

ilson (my former agent), by mutual consent, withd

H. Sl

ore, Ju

he highest prices are paid,-which is well known. We have large accommodations for negroes, and always buying. Being regular shippers to New Orlean

Slat

road depot, where I am permanently located. Persons bringing negroes by the cars will find it very convenient, as it is only a few yards from where the pa

van, Balti

r which they will give the highest market price in cash. They will be in Port Tobacco once in every w

mes. Persons having negroes for sale will please call at my office, No. 26, Co

eceived and kept at twe

Camp

l 7,

all the facilities that the trade will admit of in the New Orleans and other markets. Such being the case, I can give as much as any one e

G. Ca

r B. M.

1, 1

ll to the traders. By paying a small commission to an agent, they can get from $75 to $100 more; as I rec

nce Office, No. 10

om the "Wilmington (Va.)

rice. As I intend making a long stay in Wilmington for that purpose, persons from the country would find it to their advantage to bring such slave-pro

is, of Pet

ton, May

an advertisement of Lewis A. Col

Persons wishing to purchase lots of negroes are requested to give me a call, as I keep constantly on hand at this place a great many for sale; and have at this time the use of one hundred young negroes, consisting of boys, young men, and girls. I will sell at all times at a small advance on cost, to suit purchasers. I have comfortable rooms, with a jail attached, for

A. Col

on" of August 26, 1847,

negroes, of both sexes, for which I will pay the highest price, in cash.

John

hundred negroes, the high

ell, City

ont-st

Louis), of the same date

e, thirty or forty

din, 79, Ol

aken from the "St.

aid for young likely negroes, at 104, Locust-street,

d afford the advantages of a jail surrou

& To

he "Evening Mercury" of Jan. 14,

56, Common-street, for which liberal prices will be paid. Slaves will also be sold on commission

Cres

l do well to give him a call before selling to others. He will also exchange slaves, sell slaves on commission; and those who wish to purchase will do well

laves. Those which follow are of slaves for sale. We cannot commence mor

e, and leased for a number of years his old stand at the corner of Esplanade and Moreau-streets, at which place

L. Ca

to Hope H.

pality, a large and likely lot of negroes, consisting of field-hands, house-servants

. Tal

t. 18, 1846, contain

d-hands, and mechanics, which will be sold low, for cash or negotiable paper. Persons desirous of purchasing will find it to their

in the slave-trade, that he is prepared to board

. Mer

. Barelli, C.

lock in the rear of St. Charles Exchange), a large lot of valuable slaves, suitable for plantation, hou

s. We would also respectfully notify owners of negroes, and persons engaged in the s

my, airy, and dry

n B

. Mer

is appended to the next adve

f Main and Adams-streets. I have plough-boys, men, women, and girls, and some very fancy ones. I intend to keep a constant supp

e highest cash pric

. Bo

ber 21

t may be inferred from the following adverti

ight mulatto, fine figure, straight, black hair, and very black eyes; remarkably neat and cleanly in her dress and person. I venture to say, that there is no

on (whom I consider the most valuable in Virginia), may take her and try her a month or more at my

ersuasions of some colored persons to make her escape with them to the North, in which she failed, and is now for sale.-Ap

h Hol

honor of having such careful

Gaine's brick building, immediately back of Howard's Row, between the Gayoso and Herron House. I have judicious m

ll do well not to trade, withou

. Cu

November

iberty" contains

a call before they make their purchases, as it would be greatly to their

nce Office, No. 1

nd Enquirer," Sept 1

le Court day), at Charlottesville, there will be sold at publ

ust

r, Jan. 25, 1848

0 o'clock, twenty likely young negroes, viz. ten able

man, 40 years of age, who is a first-rate

avis, Au

Wall-

om the "Alabama Argus," p

r at public sale, to the highest bidder, a lot, numbering sixty, of the likeliest and best negroes ever sold in the South. They are all family negroes,-not bought up by speculators from every State in the South, but raised by different men, in families from five to twenty each. Among this stock of negroes are some able-bodi

ander, Adm

uary

sement is before us (

is about 24 years old; and the child, a girl, about 5 years of age. The woman accustomed to house-business, also to the farm. The ne

helps, Au

v.

from a paper publishe

day of February next, and the following days, one hundred choice slaves, of both sexes and different ages, among which is a good blacksmith and several other mechanics. These sla

tion of the vendor, and the slaves remaining specially mortgaged until final payment of principal and the interest which may accrue thereon, at the rate

ypolite

, January

ertisements as these might be adduced. You can ha

ngress (Act March 2, 1807, sect. 8-10), and slavers sail apparently with commendable regul

ster, on the 15th January; brig Uncas, Nathaniel Boush, master, on the 1st February. They will continue to leave this port on the 1st and 15th of each m

ield, Al

8, published at Norfolk, Virginia. They are advertisements of the same person, who, as w

Bachelor, Page, master, will sail for the above port from the 20th to the 27th inst. F

Appe

20th September, and continue monthly throughout the season. They consist of the following vessels, to wit, b

ss, and commanded by long and experienced c

Appe

no means have a monopoly of this coastwise slave-trade. The barque Parthenon, Mellish, master, cleared from the po

rth Carolina slave-trader to his consignee in New O

.C. Novembe

Caroline Ennis, $650; 2, Silvy Holland, $625; 3, Silvy Booth, $487.50;

know they will come down. I have no opposition in market. I will wait until I hear from you before I buy, and then I can judge what I must pay. Goodwin will send you t

urs

. Ba

lus Freeman,

frey, in his excellent Papers on the Slave Power (p. 83), estimates the number annually sold from th

very good and sensible man," asserting that twenty thousand slaves had been driven to the South from Virginia during that year, of which nearly one fourth was then remaining. But 1835 and 1836 were years of great speculation. In 1837 the consequent severe pressure in t

he climate of Virginia, this effect is, at least, fully balanced by the great amount and unhealthy character of much of the labor on the sugar, rice, and cotton plantations, and by

810 1810-1820 18

3 29

er cent every ten years. We adopt this as a fair statement of what should be their decennial natural increase in

XPORTIN

mb

which ought

0. in 1840. to have b

h Stat

1

92 2,605 4,2

94 89,737 130,

ia 6,119 4,694

7 448,987 601,2

5,601 245,817 301

5,401 327,038 403

3 182,258 211,4

04 829,210 872,

0,346 403

MPORTIN

mb

s which ough

30. in 1840. to have

te increase

1

31 280,944 27

01 25,717 19

253,532 150,46

59 195,211 84,04

88 168,452 140,

6 19,935 5,85

1 58,240 32,10

291,01

rently with the intent to prove that slavery was better calculated to secure the health of the negro race than a state of freedom. What figures will tell in favor of slavery?-not, what figures will tell the truth?-seems to have been the principle on which the last census was taken. Such being the case, we feel confident that the census makes the slaves in the exporting States decrease as little as poss

friends, and driven to the South and West. So truly did the Rev. Theodore Clapp speak (Sermon, p. 46), when he declared, "Slaves possess the inappreciable benefits which grow out of the endearing ties of friendship, kindred, sympathy, and the whole class of domestic affections. Parents and children, husbands and wives (it is true), are sometimes separated by being involved in those calamities which sweep away the possessions and prosperity of the master. But, take it all in all, they are as free and undisturbed in the enjoyment of their domestic relations, as the white inhabitants of the Northern States"! Fo

ve hundred thus remove, and that on an average they have ten slaves each (proper estimates we believe), we have

te sum of fifteen millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars! This is exclusive of the cost of all the private jails, of transportation by sea and land, food, wages of drivers, &c.; which cannot but very largely increase this sum. This sum, $15,750,000, would, in less than three years, double the number of miles of railroad which were in operation in all the Southern States in 1846 (Parker's "Letter on Slavery," p. 52). It would, in only two years, more than double in length all the railroads which were then in operation in all the Slave States, except Maryland. It costs every year five millions more to carry on the domestic slave-trade than it does to fit out and victual all the whale-ship