![]() ![]() “Years later, she remembered her zombie days. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Frolicking: Down there, Ball realized, the Carolinians’ play, the time when they were most fully themselves, was evidently when they were arguing, negotiating, dealing, and intimidating the enslaved.” ![]() The blacksmith came out, and he asked what “the two gentlemen were making such a frolick about,” Ball later said. The new man stated for everyone’s benefit that he had worked African men to death in iron collars. They stopped at a forge, and they kept arguing. One thousand dollars for the two, plus blacksmith fees. Maybe the deal could be sweetened, allowed the Georgia-man, if the South Carolinian paid to have the chains knocked off the men. ![]() The new man stared at the women and told them what he thought he’d do with them. The two men negotiated, argued, and insulted each other a little. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two women. “The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. ![]()
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