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The Weeping Time: A History of the Largest American Slave Auction

111 points by ryan_j_naughton 10y ago

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edmccard 10y ago
The journals of Fanny Kemble, mentioned in the article, can be found on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kemb_0 https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kemb_0 and the eyewitness description of the sale, "Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia", is here: https://archive.org/details/whatbecameofslav00does https://archive.org/details/whatbecameofslav00does
babesh 10y ago
It doesn't feel like the country has changed that much in attitude especially in acquitting those slave transporters.
- davidgay 10y ago
  Also, stories like that are always a good reminder of the pitfalls of "jury nullification"...
- a3n 10y ago
  Consider that the US government is now considering separating children from their parents if caught crossing the southern border. The intent is explicitly to deter the crossing, the idea being that knowing you may be separated from your kids may keep you on the south side. But for that deterrent to be credible, they actually have to do the separations. Or they could, you know, go back to Honduras and be murdered. Together.
ars 10y ago
> including a man named Jeffrey who attempts to entreat his buyer to purchase a woman named Dorcas, his fiancee, only to eventually be rebuffed when the buyer finds out he would have to purchase her whole family to acquire her. The slaves were sold as family units, not individuals. But since Jeffrey was only engaged to Dorcas and not actually married, he was sold separately. To buy Dorcas the new owner would have had to buy her whole family since they were all sold together. Family units only considered husband/wife and minor children. Older children and adult siblings or grandparents were separated from their relatives.
yazbo_mcclure 10y ago
They want to spend 3.2 million on a confederate relic room for the flag they took down from capital in my state they have this bunch of dumb as crackers who read the list of the dead protectors of that system they cosplay widows and fat plantation owners ugh I'm not proud of that symbol of sorrow and pain I am though so happy so enlivened by the monuments in penn and mass to our liberators and I am a White Southenor

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edmccard 10y ago

The journals of Fanny Kemble, mentioned in the article, can be found on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kemb_0 https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kemb_0 and the eyewitness description of the sale, "Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia", is here: https://archive.org/details/whatbecameofslav00does https://archive.org/details/whatbecameofslav00does

babesh 10y ago

It doesn't feel like the country has changed that much in attitude especially in acquitting those slave transporters.

davidgay 10y ago
Also, stories like that are always a good reminder of the pitfalls of "jury nullification"...
a3n 10y ago
Consider that the US government is now considering separating children from their parents if caught crossing the southern border. The intent is explicitly to deter the crossing, the idea being that knowing you may be separated from your kids may keep you on the south side. But for that deterrent to be credible, they actually have to do the separations. Or they could, you know, go back to Honduras and be murdered. Together.

ars 10y ago

> including a man named Jeffrey who attempts to entreat his buyer to purchase a woman named Dorcas, his fiancee, only to eventually be rebuffed when the buyer finds out he would have to purchase her whole family to acquire her. The slaves were sold as family units, not individuals. But since Jeffrey was only engaged to Dorcas and not actually married, he was sold separately. To buy Dorcas the new owner would have had to buy her whole family since they were all sold together. Family units only considered husband/wife and minor children. Older children and adult siblings or grandparents were separated from their relatives.

yazbo_mcclure 10y ago

They want to spend 3.2 million on a confederate relic room for the flag they took down from capital in my state they have this bunch of dumb as crackers who read the list of the dead protectors of that system they cosplay widows and fat plantation owners ugh I'm not proud of that symbol of sorrow and pain I am though so happy so enlivened by the monuments in penn and mass to our liberators and I am a White Southenor