{UAH} One of the near-white child slaves 'auctioned' by the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.

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"One of the near-white child slaves 'auctioned' by the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. These light-complexioned captives terrified some white Americans into glimpsing slavery's hidden face. Courtesy of the Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations." Photo c. 1848.

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