{"id":787,"date":"2016-07-29T19:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:35:14","slug":"enslaved-persons-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/enslaved-persons-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting of Enslaved Persons for Sale, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_780\" style=\"width: 1002px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-780\" class=\"wp-image-780 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3.png\" alt=\"Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia, 1861, via University of Virginia, The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas.\" width=\"992\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3.png 992w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3-250x177.png 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3-500x353.png 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/awaitingsale_c3330d46da-3-624x441.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia, 1861, via <a href=\"http:\/\/hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu\/Slavery\/detailsKeyword.php?keyword=slaves%20waiting%20for%20sale&amp;recordCount=2&amp;theRecord=0\">University of Virginia, The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The English painter Eyre Crowe traveled through the American South in the early 1850s. He was particularly shocked to see the horrors of a slave market where families were torn apart by sale. In this painting, Crowe depicts an enslaved man, several women, and children waiting to be sold at auction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English painter Eyre Crowe traveled through the American South in the early 1850s. He was particularly shocked to see the horrors of a slave market where families were torn apart by sale. In this painting, Crowe depicts an enslaved man, several women, and children waiting to be sold at auction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-787","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}