Question/Problem 1: What was life like for slaves in the United States prior to the Civil War?

Slave Trade

Sometimes slave traders would purchase slaves at an auction. They would then march them, sometimes for weeks to a new location and sell them for a profit.

Read the passage on page 53 of "To Be a Slave" by Julius Lester (New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968) which describes one of these slave traders.