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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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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2215.9191%64%5%

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Berkeley AToronto A0101020
BrownYale A0101020
Chicago CCornell B010010
HarvardChicago D0101020
FloridaClaremont Colleges010010
IndianaCornell A10101030
Iowa StateIllinois0101020
McGillKentucky001010
Georgia TechMaryland0101020
MichiganJohns Hopkins0101020
Chicago AMinnesota A0101020
NYUNorthwestern0101020
North Carolina AColumbia A010010
Berkeley BNorth Carolina B0101020
PennDuke010010
TexasPurdue010010
Chicago BStanford010010
RutgersToronto B010010
Truman StateSouth Carolina0101020
VanderbiltMinnesota B001010
Columbia BVirginia010010
WUSTL AWaterloo0101020