The Thin Light of Freedom Quotes

“The average adult slave cost about 1,200 dollars in 1860, the equivalent to about 24,000 dollars today, so the 5,500 enslaved people of Augusta were worth over 6 million dollars to their owners, equal to 120 million dollars today.”
― Edward L. Ayers, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America