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Rothman Helps Mark Site Where Franklin & Armfield Traded in Enslaved Laborers.

Department Chair Dr. Joshua Rothman was recently involved in a project in New Orleans, where several markers were erected to mark places in the city where enslaved people were bought and sold. A few years ago, Rothman co-wrote an op-ed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune discussing “the absence of recognition of the city’s role in the slave trade, and suggesting that that ought to change.” The essay reached the Mayor’s office, and the city decided to create a series of […]

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