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| 6 | 136 | But who is, say, to buy them in the View more quotes about north">north, and so many? To be sure, many men were taking ship north, and they might be intended for them, if not for outright purchasing, for brothels, slave houses, or taverns. |
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| 6 | 133 | Better markets were elsewhere. |
| 6 | 134 | Perhaps they were for gifts or trade goods. |
| 6 | 135 | But to whom, and where? Certainly a lovely female makes a splendid gift, and, in many situations, can be bartered to one's advantage. |
| 6 | 136 | But who is, say, to buy them in the north, and so many? To be sure, many men were taking ship north, and they might be intended for them, if not for outright purchasing, for brothels, slave houses, or taverns. |
| 6 | 137 | Men will want their slaves. |
| 6 | 138 | Many of the purchased slaves were being held in the vicinity of the docks, in holding areas, the basements of warehouses, and such. |
| 6 | 139 | In some places, through the high, narrow, barred windows in the walls, through which light may filter, they would hear the calls of longshoremen, their loading chants, the rumble of wheels on the planks, the creak of timbers, the stirring of slack canvas on a round ship, the water washing against the pilings. |