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Men would bring slaves to big auctions (the slaves were chained together, for safety) and men would say 20... ill give you 70 dollars for slave #67..... on and on until the bid was so high no one wanted to bid anymore. The person who did that payed the money and got the slave.

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∙ 18y ago

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