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A slave Kwaque was, as much as if Daughtry had bought him on the auction-block.

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You know, something like half the furnishings in my apartment in Toronto came from Mark's auction-block, and cheap, too!

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Once trained, at the age of fifteen or thereabouts, they went on the auction-block.

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But few transcend that auction-block where the sheriff was selling all Garrett's goods for the crime (!) of giving a breakfast to a family of fugitive slaves.

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On being put upon the auction-block, this young man addressed the bystanders, and told them the circumstances of the case; that his mother had long lived in the family of the doctor, that it was cruel to sell her and her children, and he warned the people not to bid for him, for he would no longer be

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I stood by him on the auction-block; and when I stepped down, they thought they had him sure.

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For some cause or other the alarm of the auction-block was sounded in his ears, which at first distracted him greatly; upon sober reflection it worked greatly to his advantage.

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Not long before escaping, she had been threatened with the auction-block; this fate she felt bound to avert, if possible, and the way she aimed to do it was by escaping on the Underground Rail Road.

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When the hour arrived, the doomed man was placed on the auction-block.

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From such indications, Henry was fully persuaded that his time was well nigh at hand, and great was his anxiety as he meditated over the auction-block.

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