Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Accession number |
2018.044 |
Catalog Number |
2018.044.001 |
Object Name |
Scrapbook |
Date |
May 2017 |
Title |
Purchased Lives Binder |
Caption |
Purchased Lives in Bossier Parish |
Scope & Content |
In May 2017 the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center hosted the traveling exhibit "Purchased Lives The American Slave Trade from 1808-1865. |
People |
Allwine, J.S. Ally, Daniel Burton, Alla Cain, C. (Dr.) Cason, James Ratcliff Coleman, J.D. Cook, G.A. Crawford, Catherine Davis, John J. Elder, David Fish, W.J. Ford, Charles Henry Gregg, John J. Hancock, Thomas Benton Hancock, William J. Heine, A.L. Hunter, Joseph Kleinpeter, John B. Lay, Isaac Parker Malone, D. Malone, M.A. Marks, T.M. Marks, William Pennywell, William Persons Pickett, Nathan Pomroy, Wilson Prewitt, James Roach, F.F. Russell, Silas Shaw, James Smith Springfield, (Dr.) Stewart, J.J. Turner, Thomas Waddle, Daniel Waddle, Thomas D. Wright, Levin |
Search Terms |
Baton Rouge Bellevue Fillmore New Orleans Slave Depot Newspaper, Bossier Banner-Progress Newspaper, Daily Southwestern Newspaper, New Orleans Bee Newspaper, New Orleans Times-Picayune Newspaper, Planters Press Red River Enslavement Succession |
Notes |
A panel version of the powerful and poignant traveling exhibition "Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865" "Purchased Lives" examines the period between America's 1808 abolishment of the international slave trade and the end of the Civil War, during which an estimated two million people were forcibly moved among the nation's states and territories. The domes-tic trade wreaked new havoc on the lives of enslaved families, as owners and traders in Upper South- Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, DC-sold and shipped surplus laborers to the developing Lower South- Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Many of those individuals passed through New Orleans, which was the largest slave market in antebellum America. According to Erin M. Greenwald, THNOC historian and curator of the exhibition "Purchased Lives"' connects the economic narrative of American slavery to the firsthand experiences of the men, women and children whose lives were shattered by the domestic slave Trade." The exhibition is composed of ten panels that feature reproductions of period artifacts such as broad-sides, paintings and prints illustrating the domestic slave trade, as well as ship manifests, financial documents and first-hand ac-counts conveying the trade's reach into all levels of antebellum society. Re-productions of post-Civil War "Lost Friends" ads depict the attempts of former slaves to reunite with loved ones, even as much as 50 years after the war. The Purchased Lives scrapbook is full of adds from slave auctions, slave traders, and auction locations that appeared in papers across Bossier Parish and surrounding Louisiana. |
Imagefile |
038\2018044001.JPG |
Inventoried date |
2024-09-12 |