Help with history

Here are the answers to your questions:

1.1. The event being shown in the photograph is a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia in 1857.

1.2. Slave actions were unfair. This is because slaves were treated as personal property, denied basic human rights, subjected to brutal punishment, and forced to work under harsh conditions without pay or freedom.

2.1. The evidence from the source that suggests slaves had no freedom of movement is: "Slave were not allowed to leave the plantation without permission."