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Richmond, Virginia slave market, a Common card
The Richmond, Virginia slave market was the largest slave market in the Upper South region of the United States in the 1840s and 1850s.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 48
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 79
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,700
Power 79 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- An estimated 3,000 to 9,000 slaves were sold out of Virginia annually between 1820 and 1860, many of them through Richmond.
- Richmond's slave traders clustered their jails and auction rooms on Wall Street, a narrow alley in a section of the city called Shockhoe Bottom, the valley created by Shockoe Creek, which bisected the city.
- Traders also used the offices and meeting rooms at the Exchange Hotel, St. Charles Hotel, City Hotel and Odd Fellows' Hall.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Richmond, Virginia slave market article was read about 1,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 48 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Richmond, Virginia slave market
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Richmond, Virginia slave market (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eyre Crowe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.