How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

ProPublica
@bud_t Thanks for boosting that post. Very interesting and disturbing article.
They have written so much at length about the white masters and their families, but hardly anything about the slaves. Slavery continues till today in different form.
@joyannreid I'm so glad to see you on Mastodon, Joy!
@joyannreid Read this soul wrenching article. It's important.
Although I have read widely about slavery in the US I just recently learned about The Workhouse. In Charleston slave owners often farmed out the torture of slaves to a city jail designed for the purpose. The acts perpetrated on enslaved people there were horrific, unthinkable.
Legal chattel slavery existed here for 250 years and should never be covered up or forgotten. Its consequences reverberate through our history.
@joyannreid Replied to boost but include CW for slavery, racist violence, US history in my feed
@joyannreid Floridians specifically do not want to know these things.
@joyannreid bravo to @ProPublica and Lauren Davila for this great research!
Certain people want us to ignore that they made mounds of wealth committing crimes against humanity and slavery and that they wouldn’t have gotten their wealth if they hadn’t exploited so many.