Use this passage to answer the following question: incidents in the life of a slave girl excerpt from chapter ii. the new master and mistress harriet jacobs on one of these sale days, i saw a mother lead seven children to the auction-block. she knew that some of them would be taken from her; but they took all. the children were sold to a slave-trader, and their mother was brought by a man in her own town. before night her children were all far away. she begged the trader to tell her where he intended to take them; this he refused to do. how could he, when he knew he would sell them, one by one, wherever he could command the highest price? i met that mother in the street, and her wild, haggard face lives to-day in my mind. she wrung her hands in anguish, and exclaimed, "gone! all gone! why don't god kill me? " i had no words wherewith to comfort her. instances of this kind are of daily, yea, of hourly occurrence. what was one main effect of slave sale days?