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By David Seibert, January 20, 2009
Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History Marker
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| | One of the largest sales of enslaved persons in U.S. history took place on March 2-3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Race Course ¼ mile southwest of here. To satisfy his creditors, Pierce M. Butler sold 436 men, women, and children from his Butler Island . . . — — Map (db m15838) HM |
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Famous rice Plantation of the 19th century, owned by Pierce Butler of Philadelphia. A system of dikes and canals for the cultivation of rice, installed by engineers from Holland, is still in evidence in the old fields, and has been used as a . . . — — Map (db m10802) HM |
| | We were stolen, sold and bought together from the African Continent
We got on the slave ships together, we lay back to belly in the holds of the slave ships in each others excrement and urine together. Sometimes died together and our lifeless . . . — — Map (db m5278) HM |
May. 23, 2024