1.   As for me, I like the really big paintings, billboard size and action-packed with winged ascensions, naked slave auctions and Biblical executions.

2.   A black student had come to school upset that a local white fraternity was planning a mock slave auction.

3.   A re-enactment of a slave auction last October in Colonial Williamsburg sparked outrage among many blacks, who said the dramatization ripped open a painful wound.

4.   A showman to the bone, Beecher dramatized the cruelties of slavery by staging mock slave auctions, with himself in the role of the auctioneer.

5.   Their progress was interrupted when individuals looked helpless while the text told of slave auctions.

6.   Two years ago in colonial Williamsburg, Va., the reenactment of a slave auction stirred protests from state civil-rights leaders.

7.   Five years ago, its re-enactment of a slave auction drew protests from blacks.

8.   Hester is a modern kind of gal who wears stays in her bodice, bids at slave auctions and otherwise infuriates the male-dominated Christian community.

9.   In the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, dozens of protesters acted out a mock slave auction.

10.   Mary Todd Lincoln was a rabid abolitionist who brought the evils of slavery to the attention of her husband by taking him to a local slave auction.