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.

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@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.