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How were slaves transported from auction?

I have to write a book about slaves for english. I have chosen to write a part about auction. One problem. I don't know how slaves were transported from auction to the plantation. Please give a smart and educated answer. If possible include a source for my bibliography. You don't need an MLA style citation just your source (i.e. the website or book you obtain it from) include author if it is a book. Thank You!

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1. They probably walked.


2. I think you can pose this question to Yahoo. Since there were no cars or trucks they were transported by wagon or they walked.


3. for the most part, regarding the usa, once a bidder paid the price, the slave's chain was unlocked and the slave followed the owner to their buggy or wagon and transported to one of the big plantations. rarely, could the merchants or farmers purchase them it was more of a corporate transaction. big planters had large staffs of foremen and administrators and the actual owner had little close contact with slaves. all that was as financially driven and impersonal as todays corporate agriculture leaders have to do with purchasing a $200,000 threasher or, for that matter, a huge cotton picking machine. slaves and plantations go hand in hand along with bankig which reached back to england, more often than not. to them, is was simply business. not personal and by keeping a safe distance, they kept it impersonal, just business. hope that gives you a glimpse of how this really was. the millions of small farmers and such did not really socialize with the big planters and bankers. it has always been about class strata, finance and the never ending quest for wealth and power. the ruling elite viewed slaves, native americans and poor farmers and small merchants as a necessary evil and took a Darwinian view that they lower stratas we bit less evolved. They frequently use the phrase that these less evolved people "just had not come down so far from the trees.."

   looking back, the sudden and intense growth of slavery in the southern usa has done much damage to effective social institutions that existed before this practice. there were problems in social structure but not as complex as today. it accelerated the destruction of society, like the alledged comet distroyed the dinosaurs. relatively, it is a sudden thing and we are scrambling to find the bonds, and sense of personal identity that is the fabric of every socieity, even wolf packs.



4. horse drawn wagon, walking chained together, or on a ship to be transported elsewhere. (africa to caribbean island to plantation) Check out the history of Jamaica online.


5. via there slave masters personal horse drawn wagon