Anonymous
10/05/2023 16:26
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
No. Class of ‘87, North Carolina
Anonymous
10/05/2023 16:18
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
NO way! And I went to a Baptist private school.
Anonymous
10/05/2023 16:17
Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
1991 SW state and yes our school had it
Anonymous
10/04/2023 19:13
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
1987 grad from a public HS in central VA.
I had forgotten about the slave auction, but now I remember freshmen being auctioned as slaves to carry books, lunch trays, etc. for seniors.
I had forgotten about the slave auction, but now I remember freshmen being auctioned as slaves to carry books, lunch trays, etc. for seniors.
Anonymous
10/04/2023 19:10
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Whoa, a trip down memory lane. Yes, our Key Club in public high school in California did this - late 70s.
Anonymous
10/04/2023 19:03
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Private school? Yeah. Publics, def not. Even back then.
Anonymous
10/04/2023 15:43
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Texas, early nineties - definitely not.
Anonymous
10/04/2023 15:31
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Um, no. And I grew up in Mississippi.
Anonymous
10/04/2023 15:26
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:Class of 1989 here.
I vividly remember being auctioned off in a “freshman slave day” back in 1984 or 1985. It was a fundraiser type of thing.
I think there’s a twist on this where seniors are the ones who are auctiones.
This was in Ohio back in the mid-1980s.
Wondering if it was common.
Class of '91 and nothing like this in the rust belt where I grew up.
Anonymous
10/03/2023 14:12
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What the actual F?
I went to a deep Southern school and there's no way in heck that we could ever get away with that. It was pounded into us how awful slavery was and how awful our fore-parents were from benefiting from slavery.
(even though only 1% of people owned slaves)
Yeah, but the vast majority of the other 99% aspired to own slaves and treated black people like animals.
OP, I was in high school in Louisville KY in the 90s, and this was definitely a thing.
Do you get a kick from making stuff up?
Anonymous
10/03/2023 02:10
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Ohhh wait, we did have this, I think it was NHS inductees got to be slaves for Seniors? I don’t know…my memory is fuzzy. NJ
Anonymous
10/03/2023 01:24
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:Michigan, and NO!!
Ditto!
Anonymous
10/02/2023 23:02
Subject: Re:Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Class of 2001 in NJ and we had this but I think it was just called a “senior auction”. I knew immediately what the post was asking from the title though so it’s possible it was still called slave auction. At the very least it was obvious you were paying for someone to be your “slave”.
Anonymous
10/02/2023 22:57
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Class of 1990, NoVA
our school didn’t do it and I don’t recall neighboring schools doing it but wouldn’t be surprised to find out it happened. And I can be honest back then I would have shrugged and thought nothing of it and never equated it with actual slavery.
our school didn’t do it and I don’t recall neighboring schools doing it but wouldn’t be surprised to find out it happened. And I can be honest back then I would have shrugged and thought nothing of it and never equated it with actual slavery.
Anonymous
10/02/2023 22:51
Subject: Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?
Anonymous wrote:What the actual F?
I went to a deep Southern school and there's no way in heck that we could ever get away with that. It was pounded into us how awful slavery was and how awful our fore-parents were from benefiting from slavery.
(even though only 1% of people owned slaves)
Yeah, but the vast majority of the other 99% aspired to own slaves and treated black people like animals.
OP, I was in high school in Louisville KY in the 90s, and this was definitely a thing.