Edward E. Baptist Quote
Soon competitors did the same, such as Samuel Reynolds, who came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1831 and placed an ad in the Easton Republican Star. It proclaimed that he wouldn’t leave the Easton Hotel until he bought 100 NEGROES, from the age of twelve to twenty-five years, for which he will give higher prices than any real purchaser that is now in the market. Young Frederick Douglass, who was sent back from Baltimore (where he had secretly learned to read)
Edward E. Baptist
Soon competitors did the same, such as Samuel Reynolds, who came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1831 and placed an ad in the Easton Republican Star. It proclaimed that he wouldn’t leave the Easton Hotel until he bought 100 NEGROES, from the age of twelve to twenty-five years, for which he will give higher prices than any real purchaser that is now in the market. Young Frederick Douglass, who was sent back from Baltimore (where he had secretly learned to read)
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