In 1859, his single auction house in Richmond, Virginia, sold human beings with a market value of more than $2.67 million. The Richmond Enquirer carried a daily column of slave auctions the way a newspaper now carries stock market listings. I also stumbled on letters between slave traders. Saint-Domingue imported some 800,000 Africans and yet held only about half a million enslaved people when its revolution began in 1791; the rest were dead. The records name names, estate by estate, across what is now Caricom.