How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
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How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction
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.