Slave Trade Competition, 1859

ID: 3405 ~ Date: 1859
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
Slave Trade Competition, 1859
Coleman Collection, University of Kentucky Special Collections

These two advertisements for competing slave trading firms help demonstrate how Lexington's Cheapside Slave Auction Block served as a focal point for the slave trade in the state.

This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block

By Andrew Patrick
Historical Marker #2122 remembers Lexington’s Cheapside slave auction block and the thousands of enslaved Kentuckians sold here. For decades before the Civil War, Lexington was the center of the slave trade in Kentucky. Located in the heart of…