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

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

“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.