Price, Birch & Co. was a notorious mid‑19th‑century slave‑trading firm based at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, operating in the final years before the Civil War. The company bought, imprisoned, and sold enslaved people for shipment to Deep South markets, continuing the brutal interstate trade established earlier by Franklin & Armfield and later George Kephart. Its name became infamous after Union forces photographed the building in 1861, revealing the stark sign “Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves.”
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Price, Birch & Co. was a notorious mid‑19th‑century slave‑trading firm based at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, operating in the final years before the Civil War. The company bought, imprisoned, and sold enslaved people for shipment to Deep South markets, continuing the brutal interstate trade established earlier by Franklin & Armfield and later George Kephart. Its name became infamous after Union forces photographed the building in 1861, revealing the stark sign “Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves.”
The enslaved and Christianity
A Complex Historical Relationship
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The Subversion of Divine Authority: The profound irony lies in the fact that a divine or moral authority, who should logically break chains, is instead actively complicit in keeping people subjugated simply because they are currently unaware of their chains.
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