- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History: The Weeping Time historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Chatham County
Slave trade--Georgia--Savannah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Located at the intersection of Augusta Avenue and Dunn Street in Savannah
Text of marker: "Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History The Weeping Time. One of the largest sales of enslaved persons in U.S. history took place on March 2-3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Race Course 1/4 mile southwest of here. To satisfy his creditors, Pierce M. Butler sold 436 men, women, and children from his Butler Island and Hampton plantations near Darien, Georgia. The breakup of families and the loss of home became part of African-American heritage remembered as "the weeping time." The event was reported extensively in the northern press and reaction to the sale deepened the nation's growing sectional divide in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. 2007.11 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the City of Savannah 25-29" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_largest-slave-sale-in-georgia-history-the-weeping-time
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_largest-slave-sale-in-georgia-history-the-weeping-time
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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