Frederick Douglass described this institution as “the Black man’s cow but the White man’s milk” when he was unable to prevent its collapse in 1873. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this institution that provided familial records Anne C. Bailey used to write The Weeping Time. It was run into the ground by Jay Cooke’s brother Henry.
ANSWER: Freedman’s Bank [or Freedman’s Savings Bank; reject “Freedmen’s Bureau”]
[10e] The Weeping Time is centered around one of these events held by Pierce Butler’s estate. Georgetown offered reparations to descendants of 272 people central to one of these events held in 1838 to pay off the school’s debts.
ANSWER: slave auction [or slave sale or slave market or equivalents; prompt on auctions, sales, markets, or equivalents of any]
[10m] Savannah’s “Weeping Time” was the largest known slave auction until Lauren Davila found records of an even larger one held in this city, where military cadets later shelled the steamship Star of the West.
ANSWER: Charleston (The cadets attended The Citadel.)
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