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AlonzoMourning23
07-27-2007, 04:57 AM
I found this picture from 1864 Atlanta, GA. It's of a slave auction house and it was taken shortly after the North took control. I had never seen an actual image before, always just illustrations and they always show the actual slaves. But this one I found striking because of how nonchalant the building is. It's just there, amid everything else.

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/497/03350voh3.jpg

The man next to the door is a black union soldier.
PatrickHenry
07-27-2007, 05:51 AM
Nice detail in the photo from 1864
Anti-Racism
08-13-2007, 02:34 PM
Interestingly, there are more people currently enslaved in Africa than white America ever enslaved. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Humanity just keeps rockin' along ;)
exigent
08-13-2007, 02:44 PM
Interestingly, there are more people currently enslaved in Africa than white America ever enslaved. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Humanity just keeps rockin' along ;)


And more people killed by genocide than Hitler and Japan.[hr]BTW I love that picture...I cant stop just looking at it.
David Hume
08-23-2007, 03:06 AM
Daniel Boone's grandson opened a store in Kansas City (then called Westport) in the 1830s. The building is still there. Today, it is Kelly's Saloon, located at the corner of Westport & Pennsylvania. On Sunday's, the store sold Negroes.

Of course, the historical marker on the side of the building only mentions Boone & the fact that this is the oldest standing building in the city. Nothing of its more ignominous history.
firefox
08-23-2007, 03:44 AM
Damn. Slave selling on Sundays! I thought they'd have had a moratorium on that kind of thing (ie, slave selling any day BUT Sunday).

BTW, does anyone know of any period philosophy publications that try to justify slavery?
David Hume
08-25-2007, 03:32 AM
BTW, does anyone know of any period philosophy publications that try to justify slavery?



Yeah, I know of one. It's called, get this, THE BIBLE!
sparks
09-04-2007, 03:47 AM
The photograph is wonderful! There is almost a sense of abandonment that I get when I look at the photo. A town beaten.

Look at the garbage in the streets by the curbs. Look at the ramshackle shape of the buildings, the doors that are open instead of closed along with some windows broken out. It's almost a feeling of a ghost town.