The festival is named in recognition of the Weeping Time, the largest sale of enslaved people in United States history, which ...

Local advocates and some city leaders are hoping to preserve at least part of the site where more than 400 enslaved people were sold in 1859.

SAVANNAH — Local advocates are trying to ensure the memory of the sale of more than 400 enslaved Africans in Savannah over two rain-soaked days is not forgotten. On March 2 and 3, 1859, at the Ten ...

On March 2-3 1859 429 men, women, and children from the Butler Plantation in Darien were sold at a slave auction in Savannah.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county will decide Tuesday whether large homes should be allowed on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners fear the change could saddle them with ...

For a decade the Weeping Time Commemoration has carried the story of the 429 slaves sold in Savannah on March 2-3 1859.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county Tuesday rejected an ordinance allowing large homes on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners feared the change could saddle them with ...