Memorial planned for site of now-removed Fredericksburg slave auction block

A new memorial in downtown Fredericksburg at the site of the city’s historic slave auction block will provide historical ...
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Emergency order sought to stop slave auction block's removal

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — A business owner in Virginia is seeking an emergency temporary restraining order to prevent a slave auction block from being removed from downtown Fredericksburg. The Free ...

‘The Slaves Dread New Year’s Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1

“Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,” a slave named Lewis Clarke said in an 1842 ...
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Activist Arrested Over Removal of a Slave Auction Plaque in Charlottesville

Amid conversations over how best to acknowledge the extent to which Charlottesville’s history was formed by racism, enslavement and discrimination, the removal of the auction block plaque by a white ...
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The Devil’s Bargain: How the slave trade built New Orleans

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo shows the old slave auction block where enslaved people were sold in the St. Louis Hotel at 621 St. Louis St. in the ...