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What we know: Weeping Time and Salvation Army shelter in west Savannah

What we know: Weeping Time and Salvation Army shelter in west Savannah
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City of Savannah releases Weeping Time archeological survey

City of Savannah releases Weeping Time archeological survey
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The Weeping Time debate in Savannah brings up poverty, homeless issues

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 those residents. The site of the proposed shelter has caused controversy due to its proximity to the location of The Weeping Time, which is believed to be the largest sale of enslaved people in U.S. history.
The site’s painful past along with a surrounding community that is already fighting 90% poverty rates in some areas and an urgent need to address homelessness has sparked debate and impassioned pleas among city officials, advocates of the unsheltered and local historians. ....

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New York writer in 1859 recounts largest sale of enslaved people in Savannah

For several days in early March 1859, rains fell violently on the Ten Broeck race track in what is now west Savannah. During that time more than 400 enslaved people were sold to pay off the debts of plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler.
The rains only stopped after the last slave was sold. The auction would thereafter be known as The Weeping Time.
“As the last family stepped down from the block, the rain ceased, for the first time in four days, the clouds broke away, and the soft sunlight fell on the scene. The unhappy slaves had [sic] many of them been already removed, and others were now departing with their new masters,” New York Tribune journalist Mortimer Q. Thomson wrote of the auction, which took place on March 2 and March 3, 1859. ....

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