Currency needed to purchase a human being prior to Civil war in today’s money depended on the individual.
Very old or young could be as little as $50,000 with strong healthy males or females fetching upwards of $300,000
This made the Southern plantation owners, and the Southern economy the richest in America at the time
After the War, when the Slave trade was abolished, the South lost it main source of revenue and for the most part, has never recovered. Remaining the poorest States in the Union
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