In Memphis, after a brief partnership with S.S. Jones, Forrest worked with Byrd Hill, a well-established trader in town. Horatio Eden, sold from Forrest's mart as a child, remembered the place as a "square stockade of high boards with two room Negro houses around. A handful of accounts from African-Americans who were sold at Forrest's mart offer insight into what it was like there. "(Forrest) kept a slave trader yard in Memphis and I knew him well. Lee's willingness to sign a state proclamation honoring a man who made a fortune in human trafficking takes us backward.

Source: CNN July 14, 2019 22:41 UTC