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Slave markets existed in several Georgia cities and towns, including Albany, [16] Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville, and above all, in Savannah. [17] In 1859 Savannah was the site of a slave sale colloquially known as the Weeping Time, one of the largest slave sales in the history of the United States. [18]
Although originally banned from the colony upon the insistence of Oglethorpe, the slave population exceeded the free population in Savannah by the end of the 18th century (5,146 free and 8,201 slave in 1800). Little is known about the slave population of Savannah beyond what can be read in census information: between 1810 and 1830, there was a ...
Janice Roots, a descendent of slaves sold in the largest slave auction in Georgia, walks through the 429 chairs representing the men, women, and children sold on March 2-3 1859 in Savannah.
Robert Watts was the leading Savannah slave seller of the immediate post-Revolutionary War era in Georgia Georgia in 1830. This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia's oldest city, steeped in history predating the American Revolution, made a historic break with its slavery-era past Thursday as Savannah's city council voted to ...
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”
Pierce Mease Butler, whose slaves were sold in the auction, and his wife, Frances Kemble Butler, c. 1855 The Great Slave Auction (also called the Weeping Time [1]) was an auction of enslaved Americans of African descent held at Ten Broeck Race Course, near Savannah, Georgia, United States, on March 2 and 3, 1859.
Ebenezer Creek is a tributary of the Savannah River in Effingham County, Georgia, about 20 miles north of the city of Savannah. During the American Civil War , an incident at the creek resulted in the drowning of many freed slaves.