Americans are likely to think of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a time to celebrate a fresh start, but in the years before the Civil War, the first day of the new year was often heartbreaking for enslaved people in the United States
ncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
On one of these fateful days Jacobs saw “a mother lead seven children to the auction-block. She knew that some of them would be taken from her; but they took all.” The slave trader who took the children wouldn’t tell her where he was taking them because it depended on where he could get the “highest price.
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