Slave Auction at Cheapside

ID: 513
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block

This rare antebellum image shows a slave auction on Cheapside in Lexington. Courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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…