{"id":2483,"date":"2023-04-29T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2483"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:51:28","slug":"sale-of-negroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/sale-of-negroes\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">April 29, 1863, <em>Tri-Weekly Telegraph <\/em>(Houston, Texas)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Yesterday the sale of the negroes belonging to Gen. H. P. Bee, took place at the auction rooms of Col. J. S. Sydnor, and the prices ranged beyond those paid a week or two since.&nbsp; The number sold yesterday was 31, and the amount of the sale was between eighty-five and eighty-six thousand dollars.&nbsp; Women from 18 to 20 years of age, sold&nbsp; for $4000 and $4500.&nbsp; One woman with two small children sold for $5,700.&nbsp; Ordinary negro men brought over $4000.&nbsp; The lot was not an extraordinarily good one, though very fair, but the prices were unusually high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday the sale of the negroes belonging to Gen. H. P. Bee, took place at the auction rooms of Col. J. S. Sydnor, and the prices ranged beyond those paid a week or two since.&nbsp; The number sold yesterday was 31, and the amount of the sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}