Arrival

media type="youtube" key="tRIz-m1gOfg" height="344" width="425" When the slaves arrived to the New World after there long, horrible journey they were not sure what was going to happen next. They would be sent to a place were an auction would occur. Before these auctions they were thrown into holding pens that were in terrible condition and had to wear hand cuffs as they waited until the people arrived for the slave auction. They would be inspected before they went on stage and would suffer from humiliation, confusion, and abuse. They would poked as if they weren't human as the whites looked at every part of there body to make sure they were healthy. To make there apperances look better they would also be covered in grease, this made them look better and look healthier. As they arrived on the auction stage the people interested in buying them were allowed to inspect them. They would be told things that they couldn't understand at all, they buyers usually looked for a strong, healthy male to be there slaves- with these qualitites the price would higher. Rarely they were sold an elderly person, a child or younger slaves. The buyers usually owned a southern plantation where they needed slaves to work on there fields. The seller would really aim to sell as many slaves as they could although they might own slaves themselves it was most important to sell all the slaves at the present auction. The auctioneer would start the bidding price based off of how healthy and strong the slave worked and the crowd would work from there. At "Grab and Go" auctions the slave would be taken and the buyer would pay for the slave then. Overall, slave auctions were terrible, brutal, and humiliation for a slave. Info from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp09IyRcF3I media type="custom" key="3078704" [|Slave Auction]
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