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auction block

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Noun1.auction block - a platform from which an auctioneer sellsauction block - a platform from which an auctioneer sells; "they put their paintings on the block"
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platform - a raised horizontal surface; "the speaker mounted the platform"
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This same in- fernal law had existed in our own South in my own time, more than thirteen hundred years later, and under it hundreds of freemen who could not prove that they were freemen had been sold into lifelong slavery without the circumstance making any particular im- pression upon me; but the minute law and the auction block came into my personal experience, a thing which had been merely improper before became sud- denly hellish.
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