Over two days in 1859, on what was then the site of the Savannah Ten Broeck Race Course, 436 enslaved people were sold – the largest slave auction in history. The men, women and children had lived together as a community for years on the plantation estates of Pierce Mease Butler and called the auction “the weeping time.”
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Over two days in 1859, on what was then the site of the Savannah Ten Broeck Race Course, 436 enslaved people were sold – the largest slave auction in history. The men, women and children had lived together as a community for years on the plantation estates of Pierce Mease Butler and called the auction “the weeping time.”