Tag Archives | Lauren Davila

  • Lauren Davila, then a graduate student at the College of Charleston, found the largest known slave auction while searching archives of classified ads.

    Discovering largest known U.S. slave auction

    Originally published: ProPublica on June 16, 2023 by Jennifer Berry Hawes (more by ProPublica) (Posted Jun 20, 2023)

    Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.