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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 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. Slaveholder and absentee plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler authorized the sale of approximately 436 men, women, children ...
16 de jun. de 2023 · Until Davila’s discovery, the largest known slave auction in the U.S. was one that was held over two days in 1859 just outside Savannah, Georgia, roughly 100 miles down the Atlantic coast from...
181. A Slave Auction (1859) The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week at the Race Course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children, and infants, being that half of the negro ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, European and American slave merchants purchased enslaved Africans who were transported to the Americas and forced into slavery in the American colonies...
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Countless local and regional slave trades in Europe, Africa, and the Americas combined to create the transatlantic slave trade an ever-evolving system of people, ships, and goods that deported at least 12.5 million Africans toward destinations in Europe and the Americas over a period of 366 years.
