Archinect - News2024-12-31T05:16:34-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/120663494/how-america-is-failing-to-preserve-its-historic-slave-markets
How America is failing to preserve its historic slave markets Alexander Walter2015-02-13T14:36:00-05:00>2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/86/866ec85519e01d718ee6476a5ff762da?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It’s easy enough to blame economic forces for the postwar destruction of slave markets, but not for the persistent concealment of their history. One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, the South has no shortage of memorials to the Lost Cause, while memorials to the slave trade remain few and far between. [...]
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