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

“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.

Jesus this is disturbing on so many levels.

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