The two-day <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Slave_Auction" id="mwlA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Great Slave Auction">Great Slave Auction</a>, the largest such auction in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" id="mwlQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States">United States</a> history, begins.