Talk about something being sub-human.

I don't think many people would be "proud of" the preserved facilities at Auschwitz or Dachau, but should they be removed, plowed over, turned into a pleasant garden?

Fredricksburg probably doesn't provide the historical context and information that go with Auschwitz or Dachau, which have been turned into memorial and educational sites.

Whether through inattention or other motives, just leaving or placing an object with such extraordinarily negative history out there on a city street is fraught with the opportunity for social regressives to interact with ill intentions and otherwise misuse the experience.

Apart from the pain it caused her to see it in situ every day, tourists hold mock slave auctions on it and take pictures of themselves doing so.

Her case for moving it to a museum where it could be displayed with proper context was compelling.

I can't imagine that the town has not destroyed this landmark.

Definitely, belongs in a museum.

It should be in the same section as the guillotine and Holocaust artifacts.

But it needs to be preserved as an exhibit to the crimes our nation committed.

and then take the thing and donate it to the Smithsonian's AA museum in D.C.

The history of slavery cannot be forgotten but it also can't be used to subjugate by some daily reminder of who controlled who.

I am shocked that it is still there.

that was listing different memorials (and I know it's not all-inclusive) -

http://peace.maripo.com/p_slavery.htm

So there are ways to commemorate without celebrating.

NYC has this (just installed 2 years ago) -



(located on Wall Street between Water & Pearl where a slave auction site existed)

So there are many ways that this can happen. Here in Philly, this was just unveiled a year ago adjacent to the Delaware River in the Olde City neighborhood about 5 blocks from Independence Hall -



A block or so away from that marker is this one at the site of a coffee house that hosted slave auctions -