Gates and Swanson Slave Auction Project

[Susan Higginbotham]

Since many here have read James Swanson's Manhunt, I thought you would be interested in learning to hear about a project he and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., are working on involving a massive slave auction (429 people) that took place in 1859:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2...ping-time/

As the article mentions, the auction has been the subject of a 2017 book by Anne C. Bailey entitled The Weeping Time. Gates and Swanson are searching for descendants of those enslaved people who were sold.