059 The Weeping Time – The Story of the Largest Slave Auction in US History

you can support in the past lane with as little as $1 a month just go to the support page at our website in the past Lane calm Thanks the sale in March of 1859 was going to be one for the ages it drew hundreds of potential buyers to the city of Savannah Georgia to the

city's racetrack where the auction was to take place printed catalogs listing the details of what was on offer were handed out to the crowd here's one typical passage lot number 255 Sally Walker age 44 born 1815 cotton hand 1200 $36 lot 256 noble age 22 born 1837 cotton prime man 1,200 $36 lot 257

Sofie age 20 born 1839 cotton prime woman 1,200 $36 lot 2 5 8 mazi age 17 born 1842 cotton prime woman 1,200 $36 lot 259 Chaney age 13 born 1846 cotton prime girl 1,200 $36 lot number 260 James age 9 born 1850 1200 $36 you are listening to in the past Lane the

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let's do this [Music] greetings everyone welcome to in the past lain the podcast of an American history and why it matters I'm host Edward T O'Donnell your historian at-large and this is in the past lain episode 59 in which we explore the story of the largest slave auction in American history when some 436 enslaved people