April 15, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas)
A large auction sale of negroes took place at Col. Sydnor’s auction store yesterday, consisting of sixty, mostly field negroes, men, women and children. They were sold in lots or families, and brought $105,000, or about $1750 each. From a casual glance at the catalogue, we should judge this would give an average of about $2250 for good field hands, which may be regarded as about their price. The negroes were a good lot, though there were many children among them.