auction block

It resembled unforgettable images of slaves on the auction block.

That year, after Richardson was at the center of a lurid racism and sexual harassment scandal, he announced he was putting the team on the auction block.

As the author of a 1711 book noted, traders also smeared captives’ skin with palm oil to make them “look smooth, sleek, and young” before sending them to the auction block.

Along the Prado they used to sell slaves on the auction block, too.

Both ideas are admirable, and quite possibly necessary to save American democracy from the auction block.

From April 18-25 all of the eggs will go on display at Rockefeller Center before a select group hits the auction block.

Some of the rock-star artists who experienced meteoric rises, helped by manipulations on the auction block, are now in freefall.

Will CanWest go bankrupt, and if so, what would happen if the New Republic went on the auction block?

Being thus sustained, the slave-traders set up their auction-block in no out-of-the-way place.

Begetting children for the auction block could hardly sanctify family ties.

A beautiful girl, almost white, was placed upon the auction block and exposed to the grossest indignities.

The Republican party, with the wand of progress, touched the auction-block and it became a schoolhouse.

The less valuable slaves were first placed upon the auction-block, one after another, and sold to the highest bidder.