"Auction off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the sheriff of the county might appear at the courthouse door in accordance with a previous announcement and auction off any unclaimed runaway that had been lodged in the county jail or hired out under his authority for a period of a year or more. The slaves thus sold were usually fugitives from the lower South who had been apprehended on their way to Ohio or Indiana. ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various |
