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Auction Block Memorial
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A public memorial to those Africans and African-Americans whose trafficking and sale financed the building of Faneuil Hall - About this project Chattel slavery began in New England near the time of British Settlement. Wendy Warren’s New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America cites Governor John Winthrop’s journal of 1638 that documents the arrival of the Salem-based ship Desire. This ship carried enslaved Africans as part of its cargo. Warren also tells us of Samuel Maverick, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his plan to increase his number ...
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