This week, I saw the place in Charleston Harbor where around 40% of the slaves brought to the US entered the country. It was a sobering experience. (Sorry, I don't have a picture.)
I also visited the only remaining "slave mart" in Charleston (now a museum):
Slave traders used to sell humans here, just like cattle. Here's an old advertisement for a sale:
I also visited a plantation and saw old slave houses:
These were actually some of the nicer slave houses--the wooden ones fell down years ago.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-Maya Angelou
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Oh what pain humans inflict on each other but as Maya said History cannot be unlived. It's an embarrasment and a shame but we hopefully have moved past that.