Witness a slave auction

Who could have stopped the auction?

The slaves: The only possibility for slaves to become free was to run away, which was very dangerous because they had no food and were hunted by slave-hunters. Some also could earn money to buy their own freedom, but almost no masters allowed that.

The auctioneer: His livelyhood depended on selling slaves, so even if he had bad feelings he would be unlikely to stop it.

The justice: The law in the USA allowed slavery and in addition black African Americans and women were not seen as full human beings so the rights of equality
didn't count for them.

The newspaperman: His income depended on the readers of his paper and most of them owned slaves. He must justify slavery in order to get more readers.

Torben, Dominik, David