The 800-pound block of sandstone once stood at the corner of William and Charles Streets in the city’s historic center. Beginning in the 1830s, enslavers routinely auctioned off groups of enslaved African Americans near the site.
City officials voted to remove the stone last year. But lawsuits and the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the actual event until this summer, notes Jett in a separate Free Lance-Star article. In the coming months, a temporary panel called “A Witness to History” is slated to be installed where the block once stood.
Per the Free Lance-Star, the stone will go on display at the Fredericksburg Area Museum (FAM) by mid-November at the earliest. Eventually, the museum plans to feature the block in a permanent exhibition about Fredericksburg’s African American history.
16 comments:
First of all, they weren't African Americans. They didn't hold citizenship. And, I wonder if I could buy it. It would be a perfect flag pole holder for my confederate flag.
Send it to the African museum. Nobody goes there anyway. Well the poor slaves we have in AMERICA today. Poor things treated so badly in today's AMERICA. LMAO.
No wonder the country is in the shape it’s in. Who the heck would be stupid enough to pay good money for most blacks? That’s where it all started, they were feed, clothed and housed. Isn’t that still going on today? Isn’t that what most of us want? Looks like today’s politicians are as stupid as the buyers and bidders of the past, they suggest reparations for those not born until this practice had been over for decades. Lol
This was the only time that America ever got a days work out of most of them!
Now we feed them and house them, doctor them, give them everything and get nothing back but a bunch of crying and bitching for more!
The pos is back trolling about black people. Your FAKE.
So glad nobody has to look at this demeaning symbol of slavery. We all know it just takes us back in time and people start treating blacks like slaves again. This makes everything better a most like it didn't happen.
11:12 AM - Yikes!
1201 excellent comment and correct. Total fraud, IT says the same vile comments constantly. Bathroom graffiti and when the comment section is closed IT will return to the bathroom hiding in stalls with a sharpie.
I wouldn't bid two nickles for one.
Probably owned by a black slave owner.
White folks are on the block Now-a-days !!!
Problem is, it was not a slave “auction block”. Slaves never stood on it to be sold. Ever. Period. Much like all the lefts props, it’s FAKE and it just fit their narrative but it’s Completely false. There is absolutely zero information that ties this rock to slavery. Except that they want it to.
Soon, Whites will be picking cotton & be on
the Block, Thanks to Democrats !!!
Better keep that in case Democrats win election , for it may be used again, this
time for White people !!!
I think we should have both Obamas stand on it for a photo
Put Farakon & Al Sharpton on the Block !! LOL
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