Fictional hero, the well-born Jack Ballister, ?
Fictional hero, the well-born Jack Ballister, was sold into bondage by his maternal uncle after his kind father's death. Image shows him, as an indentured servant in Virginia, being auctioned to the highest bidder in 1719. 1895 engraving by Howard Pyle in
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10672385
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45222177
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Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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1710s Auction Auctioned Bidder Bondage Bought Emigration Enslavement Fictional Highest Indentured Maternal Pyle Servants
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