Which of the following statements best describes the slave yard where the slaves were shown to sell in Twelve Years a Slave?
“These houses are used as rooms for the examination of human chattels...”
“It was about twelve feet square—the walls of solid masonry.”
“The building . . . was two stories high, fronting on one of the public streets of Washington.”
“”The top of the wall supported one end of a roof . . . forming a kind of open shed.”