Black Caulk Wrote:
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> Cool article.
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https://beta.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/14
> /they-were-once-americas-cruelest-richest-slave-tr
> aders-why-does-no-one-know-their-names/
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> Franklin and Armfield, who headquartered their
> slave trading business in a townhouse that still
> stands in Alexandria, Va., sold more enslaved
> people, separated more families and made more
> money from the trade than almost anyone else in
> America. Between the 1820s and 1830s, the two men
> reigned as the “undisputed tycoons” of the
> domestic slave trade, as Smithsonian Magazine put
> it.
>
> The tycoons of Coons!
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