I always thought that this photo was staged, and I'm quite flabbergasted to learn that that doesn't seem to be the case. All five of the individuals in this photo of August 5, 1948, have names: Pregnant Lucille Chalifoux, is the mother of all of them, and they are: Lana (6), Rae (5), Milton (4) and Sue Ellen (2). Allegedly the photo first was published by the Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso, Indiana, although some people may have had a political need to claim it's from Chicago. Anyway, sadly enough, it's not the only instance of something like this sale happening.
Three of the kids before being put up for sale. I take it that the girl is Lana, and that she may be the one who claimed to have been sold for $2 for bingo money. It seems that the children were to become some kind of "slaves, and some of them claim to have been chained to a barn to work as slave laborers on a farm.
True/False? I hope it's the latter, but, as I said before, it doesn't seem so. Besides, not only these siblings have experienced something like this sale. Others have too:
I take it that children this young weren't meant for slavery (or sex?), but for adoption. This one was used for a postcard, which makes me believe that it was more of a joke than anything else:
Also, there were buyers for Native American Indian children. Apparently, they were sold by an organisation which were made to help the children, but which may have had ulterior motives. (NB: This letter is authentic).
When the Chalifoux-children grew up, some of them began looking for their relatives, which - as one might expect - wasn't too easy. Also, someone published a book about the case:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/4-children-for-sale
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