SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Saturday marks 165 years since of one of the largest slave auctions in U.S. history, known as the Weeping Time. The Weeping Time was a two-day long slave auction in Georgia in ...

The Weeping Time Coalition and the City of Savannah met in court on Friday, but the parties will be back before a judge in the coming weeks after attorneys for each party believed the hearing to be ...

Janice Roots' ancestors were chattel numbers 118 through 122, she said. Roots found her distant kin when searching national archives. She came to her grandmother's great-grandfather at number 118.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Land associated with the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States is now up for sale in Savannah. The Weeping Time is when historians say more than 400 ...

Nearly three weeks after Savannah commemorated 165 years since the Weeping Time, Georgia legislators unanimously passed a bill set to increase education and awareness of the state’s largest slave ...

Until recently, the event known as The Weeping Time, which took place on March 2-3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Race Course in what is now known as West Savannah, had the unenviable distinction of being ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Land formally at the center of a legal fight is now up for sale in Savannah. The Weeping Time is where historians say more than 400 slaves were sold back in 1859. SEE: ...

This is an opinion column by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. The Sankofa Bird represents the idea of “going back to fetch it” – of looking back at our past to retrieve that which is lost ...

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 ...

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 ...