A Grad Student Recently Uncovered the Largest Slave Auction in the US Known to Date

by John Ellis

I’m not going to attempt to add any thoughts to the article linked below. Please read it. Here’s an important quote from the article’s conclusion: “But for the 600 people sold and their descendants? Only a stark reminder of how America’s entrenched racial wealth gap was born, Davila said, with repercussions still felt today.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction