Caption: A black Union soldier sits, posted in front of a slave auction house on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864. The sign reads “Auction & Negro Sales”.
(via The Civil War, Part 1: The Places - In Focus - The Atlantic)
It is still unfathomable to me that real people really lived through this. It wasn’t just a story in a book for them.
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