With open forum. I want to share this story written on the propublica of a grad student on covered the largest slave sale. She is joining us and is also joined with bernard powers, director for the center for the study of slavery in charlston. Welcome to both of you. Let me start with lauren and the headline in this piece, this uncovering of the artist known slave auction in the United States, explain what you were doing and what the project you were working on and how did you make this discovery . Guest is interned during graduate school at the center for slavery and i had been sitting in my room doing Newspaper Research in the archives at slave traders in charleston during that time period and stumbled across it. I had been doing that job for a few months and happened upon it. Host what did you come upon . Guest the sale of 600 people. I thought it might have been a misprint and i emailed dr. Powers and we had a meeting and realized it was real. Host when you saw that number, the sal
Harvard’s Presidential Commission on the Legacy of Slavery formally acknowledges that slavery was undeniably integral to shaping Harvard University. The university now joins a consortium of more than 80 institutions of higher education called University Studying Slavery, engaged in investigating histories tied to slavery and making efforts to redress the affected communities. The report, however, […]