Don't Forget to Remember

Don't know if you can read this or not, but I'll sum it up for you - It's an advertisement for a slave auction.

Yup - I'm at a flea market last week, looking for items to fill my apartment, and I see this framed poster for $35. Once I read it, it blew me away. I started to buy it, just as a reminder because seeing something like that, ladies and gentlemen, reinforces how real it is.

It says something like, "Uncommonly Prime and Orderly Gang of 89 Negroes accustomed to the culture of rice, cotton and provisions Amongst them are valuable carpenters. Will be sold at public auction, by P.J. Porcher & Baya, On Monday, the 6th day of February, 1860. at the mart in Chalmara Street."

It goes on to say that you can pay for them over one, two or three year-periods.

This is the kinda thing, when you get that office or big house that you dreamed of, that you hang up just to attest to how far we've come...