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.
  • Francisco@lemmy.pt
    81·
    2 years ago

    “This day [Feb 24, 1835], the 24th instant, and the day following, at the North Side of the Custom-House [in Charlestone], at 11 o’clock, will be sold, a very valuable GANG OF NEGROES, accustomed to the culture of rice; consisting of SIX HUNDRED.”

    To many people today would have us go back.

  • cykablyatbot@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    42·
    2 years ago

    This is history, not news. Cool find for historians for sure, despite the horrendousness of the discovery.