.. A very fine negro girl, about eight years of age" or "Wanted immediately, a Negro boy... not above 15 or under 12 years of age" and "To be sold one stout negro, young fellow, about 20 years of age" (Katyal; 1993).
These advertisements show a great deal about history. For example, not are these slaves only for sale in the Southern colonies. They were also in newspapers in the North.
For example, the woman who is described in this advertisement could only speak English. Therefore, she could not communicate easily with those New Yorkers, both white and black, whose primary language was Dutch. These advertisements also provided information about the clothing. They also shed light on the survival of Africanisms in dress and body adornment and proficiencies in occupations and language(s).
Consumption and the products that people want is highly dependent on the times. They are based on need. The shortage of workers in a rapidly growing new world as America encouraged the acceptance and proliferation of race-based slavery. During the colonial period, most of the enslaved people in New York came from West Africa or the West Indies. In colonial America overall, nearly half of the Africans taken to the Western Hemisphere came from the coasts of present-day Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
By the 1930s, according to Stewart Ewen, advertisements were becoming...
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