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Posted at 11:39 AM ET, 08/23/2012 TheWashingtonPost
Ballpark plan touches a nerve in Richmond
By Peter Galuszka
Shockoe Bottom also happens to be the locus of one of the darkest chapters in Virginia's history. Up to 350,000 Africans were sold in slave auctions there for three decades before the Civil War. A large percentage of the four million or so slaves in the United State at the time of the Civil War had some ancestral tie to the Bottom, which rivaled New Orleans as the No. 1 marketplace for human slave trade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...57dd376-ed34-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_blog.html
Ballpark plan touches a nerve in Richmond
By Peter Galuszka
Shockoe Bottom also happens to be the locus of one of the darkest chapters in Virginia's history. Up to 350,000 Africans were sold in slave auctions there for three decades before the Civil War. A large percentage of the four million or so slaves in the United State at the time of the Civil War had some ancestral tie to the Bottom, which rivaled New Orleans as the No. 1 marketplace for human slave trade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...57dd376-ed34-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_blog.html
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