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Our next stop in Charleston was a hard one but I’m glad we went.

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An innocuous looking building, no?

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Perhaps from the outside .

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But its history was written in blood.

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It’s a small museum, but haunting.

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The building exists because this genteel city had to move its shameful business inside.

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There are disturbing artifacts…

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Each one worse than the last.

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And a few eye opening facts.

What are you worth?

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A guest speaker was upstairs when we were there and we sat in on her fascinating lecture.

I wish I’d thought to video it because though most of it made my jaw drop in horror, it’s our country’s history and we should all be made aware that slavery was more than the dehumanizing of a people and forced labor.

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It was a profitable business and the vast array of people who reaped the economic rewards surprised even me.

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