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WIS TV ^ | 10 June 2016 | Jeremy Turnage

[rockrr]

Hi WVNan, I don't have comprehensive data but I found a couple of images on the web that might offer a clue.

I'll see if I can find others...

[rockrr]

They looked larger in my preview ;’}

[ladyjane]

You've repeatedly claimed this - can you provide any substantiation for your claim?

Just google Faneuil Hall and slave auctions.

It's easy

[rockrr]

Done. Not a single one says that a solitary slave was auctioned there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What they really wanted was “our cotton!”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***The typical Brit strategy of divide and conquer***

Fifteen years earlier, the Brits recognized TEXAS as an independent nation, then the Brits tried to forge an alliance between Britain, Canada, Mexico and Texas against the USA.

This so shocked the Texans that they immediately applied to the USA to become a state, and made the US government aware that the back door to the USA was wide open!
The USA sent troops to that part of Texas that Britain recognized, Mexico opened fire and Ft Brown was born along with the Mexican War.

[ladyjane]

You couldn’t find even one link mentioning the slave auctions held in Faneuil Hall?

That’s odd, Faneuil and his brother were big slave traders. Boston and the small harbors near there were where the slaves came in to Massachusetts. Two percent of the population were slaves.

Here is one link, of many, to the Faneuil slave trade and Faneuil Hall slave auctions.

https://theclio.com/web/entry?id=4303

Here is another link talking about reluctance to pass laws to end slavery in Massachusetts and one describing how Boston slave traders sold fish and lumber to Africa where they filled their boats with slaves and sold them in the West Indies to bring rum and sugar back to Boston.

http://historyofmassachusetts.org/slavery-in-massachusetts/

http://historyofmassachusetts.org/faneuil-hall-was-built-with-slave-money/

That trade triangle has been well known and written about - even in public school textbooks. Many old Boston fortunes were made buying and selling slaves.

And by the way, it wasn’t just blacks who were enslaved. Boston slave traders shipped Indians down to the Islands in return for African slaves.

What browser are you using that these links don’t come up?

[AppyPappy]

The War on History is real

[ladyjane]

The slave population varied over time. In Massachusetts the most frequent statistic quoted is 2.2%.

“It reached its largest percentage of the total population between 1755 and 1764, when it stood at around 2.2 percent. The slaves concentrated in the industrial and seaside towns, however, and Boston was about 10 percent black in 1752.”

http://slavenorth.com/massachusetts.htm

Very little is written about Massachusetts Indian slavery or the white slavery. The Indians captured and sold colonists up in Canada or kept them for themselves. There is a FReeper whose ancestors were enslaved by the Indians.

[rockrr]

Thanks for the links. Unfortunately only one supports your contention (the first one). The other two are typical of what I find when I conduct my searches - an acknowledgement that Faneuil Hall was “built with money from Massachusetts’ slave trade” but no reference to slaves actually being sold there.