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:	did the efficiency of slave-trading firms, such as Virginia-based Franklin, Armfield,
|	and Ballard, which systematized the process of shipping large numbers of slaves from
:	one port to another via coastal vessels. The domestic slave trade wreaked havoc on
:	the lives of enslaved families and communities as owners and traders in the Upper
:	South—Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, DC—oversaw the
:	shipment and sale of surplus laborers to the expanding territory of the Lower South—
:	Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—often breaking up families in
;	the process.
:	Purchased	Lives:	New	Orleans	and	the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808—1865 examines
:	the lives of those caught up in the trade and considers New Orleans’s role as antebellum
:	America’s largest slave market. Period broadsides, paintings, and prints illustrate how
:	the domestic slave trade appeared in the public sphere, while manuscripts, maps, photo-
:	graphs, and three-dimensional objects—including ships’ manifests, slave clothing, a
:	patient admission book from Touro Infirmary, and a diary from John Pamplin Waddill
I	(the Louisiana lawyer who helped free Solomon Northup)—speak to the experiences of
:	those whose lives were bought and sold. (The Waddill acquisition is featured on page
■	21.) First-person accounts excerpted from published and unpublished slave narratives
•	and oral histories are included throughout the exhibition.
:	Purchased	Lives	consists	of	more	than	85 objects from The Collection’s holdings as
E y f I	t	d	I	^	WC^ aS art*^acts on ^oan from Belmont Mansion, Evergreen Plantation, Louisiana State
igeB^bumeTphoto^tmou^Id'on board	j	Museum, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans,
by McPherson and Oliver, photographers -	:	National Archives and Records Administration, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Touro
1992.2.27	;	Infirmary Archives, and private collections.—ERIN M. CREENWALD
4 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly