Slave Auction at Cheapside

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This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
Slave Auction at Cheapside

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 slave trade in Kentucky. Located in the heart of…