example, if a slave trader working out of virginia and new orleans -- and here the biggest one was isaac franklin -- if he purchased an enslaved person off the plantation in the upper south, he would sometimes pay full value cash, but he would pay a wholesale rate. if he did not have the full cash amount, he could put a mortgage on that person. they would be insured for the time they were transferred to the lower south. the insurance would cover all the expenses of moving them to the lower south, and then he would sell them at retail, about 100% more than what he bought them for. if he had a note of mortgage, he would pay off the mortgage and pocket the profit. so, the same way we can commodify houses, cars, livestock, these were the same ways we made commodities of humans. people were separated from loved ones. they were locked up in pens. they might be with their family or about to be sold from their family. all of that is being done with a price tag. people who were locked up in slave pens also had to sometimes wait for a long time for the market to be at the appropriate value to sell them at

slave trader working out of virginia and new orleans and that would be the biggest one would be isaac franklinf he purchased an enslaved person off of a plantation, the upper south, he would sometimes pay full cash value for them up there, but it would be a wholesale rate so this is, you know, you can see how people were sold. they were paid for a wholesale rate. if he didn't have the cash amount he could put a mortgage on that person and they would be ensured for the time in transit and then brought, he would cover all of the expenses of moving them down and then sell them here at a retail rate. about 100% more than what he bought them for in the upper south. if he had a note, a mortgage on that person, he would pay off that mortgage and pocket the profit. and so the same way that we comodify houses and cars and livestock, these are the exact same market forces that were in the comodification of human beings during the time of enslavement and all of that is being transacted in this calculated way, but on the ground floor, on the human side of it, what that story is is of course separation fro

slave trader working out of virginia and new orleans and that would be the biggest one would be isaac franklin he purchased an enslaved person off of a plantation, the upper south, he would sometimes pay full cash value for them up there, but it would be a wholesale rate so this is, you know, you can see how people were sold. they were paid for a wholesale rate. if he didn't have the cash amount he could put a mortgage on that person and they would be ensured for the time in transit and then brought, he would cover all of the expenses of moving them down and then sell them here at a retail rate. about 100% more than what he bought them for in the upper south. if he had a note, a mortgage on that person, he would pay off that mortgage and pocket the profit. and so the same way that we comodify houses and cars and livestock, these are the exact same market forces that were in the comodification of human beings during the time of enslavement and all of that is being transacted in this calculated way, but on the ground floor, on the human side of it, what that story is is of course separation from