October 30, 2014
Civil War-era photo of Franklin and Armfield Slave Pen. Showing the original 1812 main building (on left, three-stories with the two chimneys), the probable kitchen and tailor shop (low building on right with two chimneys), and some sort of roofed area of unknown use behind the white-washed wall.
Stories this photo appears in:
Alexandria to New Orleans: The Human Tragedy of the Interstate Slave Trade, Part II
Part II: Franklin and Armfield’s slave-trading “establishment” was located near the outskirts of what was then, in the 1830s, the town of Alexandria. The main building was three stories, handsomely painted, with green blinds.
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