The Weeping Time: When More Than 400 Men, Women, and Babies Were Auctioned Off
The Weeping Time: When More Than 400 Men, Women, and Babies Were Auctioned Off
In 1859, more than 400 enslaved people â men, women and 30 babies â from the Butler plantation estates of the Georgia Sea islands were sold on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia.
My new book is about this sale, the largest slave auction in American history, which the slaves called, âThe Weeping Time.â
This story, however, is not only about the past. Modern day descendantsâŚ