"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans"
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This painting, dated around 1842, shows an auction being held in the St. Louis Hotel's famed rotunda. As is shown, slaves were auctioned off in the St. Louis Hotel & Exchange alongside various goods and materials.
This file appears in: St. Louis Hotel & Exchange: Auctioning Off Lives
St. Louis Hotel & Exchange: Auctioning Off Lives
Numerous 19th-century travelers who frequented New Orleans for business and pleasure described the slave auction block in St. Louis Hotel. Sensationalism aside, visitors recorded their surprise at the…