DARIEN, Ga. (WTOC) - The Weeping Time was a two-day long slave auction in 1859, bringing enslaved people from Butler Island in McIntosh County to west Savannah. Descendants from The Weeping Time ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - In 1859 one of the largest slave auctions in United States history took place here in Savannah. Hundreds of enslaved people were auctioned off by a Darien slaveholder over a two ...

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.

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.

This is a column by City Talk's Bill Dawers, a longtime contributor to the Savannah Morning News. The recent release of an archeological survey sets the stage for the Salvation Army to move ahead with ...

As Savannah’s homeless population continues to grow with more than 1,000 residents who are unsheltered, the Salvation Army has proposed a transitional use shelter in west Savannah to aid nearly 200 of ...