A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. — ProPublica
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 17, 2023
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Sitting at her bedroom desk, nursing a cup of coffee on a quiet Tuesday morning, Lauren Davila scoured digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads. A graduate history student at the College of Charleston, she logged them . . .
