Lucy, age 18. Kate, age unknown. Infant, age unknown... One-by-one the names of the humans once enslaved at the Butler Plantation were read to commemorate the Weeping Time, the single largest recorded ...

Mar. 4—Amid the wails and lamentations from more than 400 enslaved people being torn apart from family and friends during a harrowing 1859 slave auction in Savannah, it is said that God also wept.

No one knows for sure just what Simon Butler looked like. They don't know his given name. But they know the important part of him. They know about the strength that kept him alive on a nasty, cramped ...

One-by-one the names of the humans once enslaved at the Butler Plantation were read to commemorate the Weeping Time, the single largest recorded sale of enslaved people in U.S. history. For Carmen ...