Inside a tiny fenced-in park off Augusta Avenue a small group gathered. Each person spoke a name; “Thomas, Daphney, Dido, three fingered Tony.” After each name, water poured from a plastic bottle. A historical marker stood nearby, commemorating the largest slave auction in Georgia history.
“I am so grateful for the reporter from New York who recorded what was happening, because now we have a written record of the agony, of the sorrow, of the cries, of the weeping,” Maxine Bryant said before commencing the ceremony.
On March 2-3, 1859, a quarter mile away, 429 men, women and children, were sold at the Ten Broeck Race Course in Savannah. For a decade the Weeping Time Commemoration has helped keep the story alive…