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Originally from, Edmund Sturge, a Quaker and advocate for abolition.The letter in Donald Mackenzie's book addressed Sturge's plea to the Sultan of Morocco to outlaw slavery in the region.

East India Companies Slave Ships List 1766, on back list of slave names 1784/85.

Receipt for medical services (visit and medicine) by a local physician, Dr. G. W. Caldwell, to a slave, in 1862. William Patterson paid $10 for the doctor's services. It is unknown whether the slave was owned by Patterson or if he was acting on…

The section is an excerpt going into the horrors of slavery in Morocco and how the European powers had ignored what was going on around them. Talks about presenting the anti-slavery view to the court of Morocco.

This is a passage describing how a disfigurement can alter the price of a slave. In this case, a missing eye lowers the value of a male slave.

This is a list of some of the slaves that were up for auction.

This passage describes "spectators" and prospective buyers examining slaves.

This passage describes the separation of slave families during the auction.

This is an account of The Weeping Time in Savannah, Georgia, when 429 slaves were sold in a matter of two days at the Broeck racetrack. All of the slaves belonged to Pierce M. Butler, and many slave families were broken up.