A Plutonian captain in the Pangalactic Virtue Patrol brings his time-traveling spaceship to a South Carolina slave auction in 1801 for a muddled morality lesson.
. . . we have journeyed here from our mutual sun’s ninth body to rectify an anomaly that for over two centuries has corrupted your civilization.

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  1. “Affirmative Auction” by James Morrow, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2013,.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by James Morrow