AUCTION BLOCK

From the ship sometimes straight to the auction block.... Branded, greased with lard, fondled, poked, jeered at, sold away from what family members might have survived the brutal middle passage.....Sold like the hogs & molasses, & lumber for building, to work the fields, milk the cows, cook & clean & suckle the babies of their new slave masters from before sun up til after sun down day after day after month after year...
Abused & threatened daily...