In the Year 2021, a Maryland Auction House was Planning to Sell a Slavery Reward Poster from 1793

A Washington Post story recently uncovered that historians from Washington College and local Black activists prevented this history from being auctioned off.

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Ask someone to tell you they’re an opportunist without telling you they’re an opportunist. Here’s one way: let’s assume that the yet-to-be-revealed opportunist runs an auction house in the Eastern Shores region of Maryland. And let’s also say that the opportunist in question found a nearly 300-year-old documen…