For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in the U.S. Today most of the sites of this trade are unmarked, unnoticed and forgotten. This #1619Project update aims to expand the historical record about America’s slave-auction sites.
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After the Civil War, most former slave-auction sites quietly blended into the main streets of today. Except for the occasional marker or museum, there was no record of the horror of separation suffered by many black families. nyti.ms/31TfafS
“To look at some of these images, which show former slave-sale sites in the present day, is to grasp how invisible some of American history’s most grievous wounds have become,” writes Anne C. Bailey nyti.ms/31TfafS 
The #1619Project from @NYTmag began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of U.S. slavery. It aims to reframe history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of our national narrative. nyti.ms/31RM00J
