The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John.

William Cobb, Columbia University ‘The Weeping Time offers a remarkable prism through which to explore the human dimensions of slavery and reconstruction in the American South. Using the March 1859 ...

Kemble initially thought the slaves were well off ... This event became known as The Weeping Time, as family after family waited to be bid on. Although husbands, wives, and small children were ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - An abrupt end to a yearslong legal fight over a west Savannah property where some believe the largest ...

You may remember that the Weeping Time was one of the largest slave sales in U-S history. We’ll be following the preservation efforts - as they continue.