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Church Fair Stages Mock Slave Auction at Pittsburgh

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 8.

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Church Fair Stages Mock Slave Auction at Pittsburgh

Another attraction has been devised by the fertile managers of a church fair at Pittsburgh. In addition to the usual catch-penny allurements, they reared the slave-block, and thereon sacrificed a dozen of the prettiest girls of the congregation, selling them off one by one. The highest price brought was $4.75, which was a goodly sum, taking into consideration the fact that no bill of sale or guarantee of any kind was given with the girls, who were at liberty to repudiate the entire transaction. Anything to make money is the only thought now-a-days.