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.

Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson knows what slavery smelled like. He was 14 years old and on a trip with friends to Cape Coast Castle, located along the shore of his homeland, the African nation of Ghana. He ...

A somber commemoration held over the weekend in Savannah. Community members gathered at Solomon Temple Church of God in Christ to mark the 167th anniversary of the Weeping Time. Sign up for our ...

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 ...

The young mother stood on the auction block, her shawl covering the 2-week-old daughter she held in her arms. Next to her stood her husband, Primus, and their 3-year-old daughter, Dido. Daphney, the ...

Today, 158 years ago, nearly 450 enslaved African-Americans were jammed into stalls at a horse track outside Savannah, to be sold to the highest bidder as part of the nation’s largest slave auction.