Slave Dealership

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Stereograph shows the interior of a military prison with a Union soldier standing guard; prior to its capture by the Union Army in 1861, the facility had been used by Price, Birch & Co. slave dealership to hold slaves before they auctioned. Alexandria, Virginia.

LOT 4162, no. 223 // LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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