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| Slave trading block in Fredricksburg, Virginia (1926) |
By Ed Rogers
The voices in the halls of Congress that cried out against slavery were drowned out by the sound of the slave auction outside. No discussion was to be had, you were for slavery or against it. The debate would go on until, at last, it started a war. The debate and the war changed nothing. Black men and black women were no longer called slaves, but they were treated no better than they had been.
