Slave Trade Competition, 1859

ID: 3405 ~ Date: 1859
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
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…