At slave auctions children were forcibly separated from their mothers — and now we’re doing this again

My book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, opens with the story of an engaged couple separated from each other on the auction block. On March 2 and 3, 1859, Pierce Mease Butler of the Butler Plantation estates in the Georgia Sea Islands sold 436 men, women, ...

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