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Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History Marker image, Touch for more information
By David Seibert, January 20, 2009
Largest Slave Sale in Georgia History Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, West Savannah — 25-29 — Largest Slave Sale in Georgia HistoryThe Weeping Time
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
2 Georgia, McIntosh County, Darien — 095-25 — Butler Island Plantation
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
3 Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, Historic District - North — African American Monument
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
 
 
  
  
 
 
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