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.
  • Boingbong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    This was disgusting and powerful to read. These types of details about the enslavement of a race not so many generations ago really paint a picture of the persecution of Black people in America. I had never heard of Sugar House or work houses in general. The treatment of trafficked black people is horrifying and to think how much retribution has happened in Germany after the holocaust compared how little has been done in the US is a disgrace.

    • cowvin@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, right-wingers are trying to suppress people being educated about this part of American history. They don’t want people to sympathize with the victims of the slavery era.

      It was an awful time and we as a nation need to do better.

  • Boingbong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    This was disgusting and powerful to read. These types of details about the enslavement of a race not so many generations ago really paint a picture of the persecution of Black people in America. I had never heard of Sugar House or work houses in general. The treatment of trafficked black people is horrifying and to think how much retribution has happened in Germany after the holocaust compared how little has been done in the US is a disgrace.