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Colin Dickey
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January 1 - February 21, 2019
This is curious, because if you walk just a little way away from the haunted bars and shops, down by the freeway you’ll find the Devil’s Half Acre. For decades black men, women, and children were brought here, imprisoned, and tortured while they waited to be sold to planters and speculators. Dozens of slave traders had offices here, where slave auctions were widely advertised and men came from all over the South to make their fortunes on the backs of those enslaved. Tens of thousands of men’s and women’s lives changed hands here in the years leading up to the Civil War; all the activity
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there be nothing but white ghosts?
