Southern Heritage and Southern Hypocrisy 0
My local rag looks at a monumental concomitance (more at the link):
Up to 25 people were auctioned at a time. The Norfolk crowd was usually a small group of traders with offices down the street, looking to buy slaves they could ship down to New Orleans at a big mark-up.
Once in a line, their clothes were stripped off so they could be inspected. Families were often split up.
These slave auctions were held steps away from where the city’s Confederate monument now stands, and a stone’s throw from jails where slaves were kept, historians say.
It’s largely the same story for two other prominent Confederate monuments in South Hampton Roads, although experts say the extent of the region’s role in the slave trade has been largely forgotten.
Shush.
Listen very carefully.
You won’t hear the folks who glorify gracious living in the Old South talk about this, even though it was the foundation thereof.
