Read "The Octoroon" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
At twelve o'clock upon the day after that on which Gerald Leslie and his daughter had been parted by the pitiless attorney, the slave auction commenced.
The sale was to take place in a public auction room in New Orleans; an apartment capable of containing upward of a hundred people.