She is sold for want of employment, and will not be sent out of the state.
Apply to the editor."[19] In some cases, whether rural or urban, the slave was sent about to find his or her purchaser.

In the city of Washington in 1854, for example, a woman, whose husband had been sold South, was furnished with the following document: "The bearer, Mary Jane, and her two daughters, are for sale.

They are sold for no earthly fault whatever.

She is one of the most ladylike and trustworthy servants I ever knew.

She is a first rate parlour servant; can arrange and set out a dinner or party supper with as much taste as the most of white ladies.