St. Alban's Anti-Racism Team Lecture/Discussion Session 2: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

As part of the parish’s ongoing efforts to respond to U.S. racism through a Christian perspective, we offer two lecture/discussion sessions (November 12 and 19) on the “cost of slavery,” understood in economic, financial, and human terms. 

Session 2: Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Thursday, November 19 | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Parish Hall | Light meal provided

The nineteenth-century’s U.S. slave trade was necessary for keeping the engine of slave capitalism turning. The slave markets—sites where hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold—reveal the dehumanizing world of enslavement in an especially acute way. In major cities such as New Orleans, Natchez, Charleston, and Richmond, the slave market was an expected part of the cultural landscape of American capitalism in the South. In this session, we will look inside the slave market, exposing the traditions for remaking enslaved persons into saleable “goods” for purchase,…