African and Native captives were sold together on the same colonial auction blocks.

Evidence

In the colonial period, Charles Towne (now Charleston, South Carolina) was a major site for the sale of both African and Native people, as was New Amsterdam (New York City). These captives stood on the same auction blocks, traversed the Atlantic on the same ships, and finally ended up in the same Northern households or Southern or Caribbean plantations, where they lived, labored, suffered, and surely dreamed together. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 472

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing knowledge of Atlantic slavery from The 1619 Project earlier chapters and general colonial history; also parallels Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s work on ordinary people’s material lives.
• SEED: An essay angle: the shared auction block — how co-enslavement of two peoples blurs the clean Black-white binary in American origin stories.