National Museum of African American History and Culture
<I>The Sale</I>
Henry Louis Stephens, American, 1821 - 1886 · ca. 1863
This color lithograph on a carte-de-visite card depicts an enslaved man being sold at auction by a white man with a hat and beard who is calling out and gesticulating. The slave carries a hat in his right hand and lowers his eyes to the ground.
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