This isn’t #BlackHistory … THIS IS AMERICAN HISTORY!! You don’t get to pretend something didn’t happen to the people who can’t forget that it did!! #TeamDL #americanhistory joyannreid Baton Rouge, to be specific. They were auctioned off at 10 years old and the proceeds went to the “Free School Fund” for white children in Baton Rouge. You definitely won’t find this in any history books in any classrooms. This is why we will continue to #TeachThemWhereWeCanReachThem 👉🏾👉🏾 africanarchives Before the Civil War, most prisoners in the South were white. The punishment of enslaved African Americans was generally left up to their owners. Louisiana, however, did imprison enslaved people for "serious" crimes, generally involving acts of rebellion against the slave system. A number of these imprisoned slaves were women. Penitentiary records show a number of women imprisoned for "assaulting a white," arson, or attempting to poison someone, most likely their enslavers. Some of these fema...