A Review of THE WEEPING TIME

After ten years of working on this project, it is interesting to see it through the eyes of others. My thanks to Kritika Agarwal of the American Historical Association for a fresh take.  Thankful for her foregrounding the descendants who are keeping the memory of this slave auction and their ancestors alive.

“Ties Once Broken: Researching the Families of a Single  Slave Auction” by Kritika Agarwal for the American Historical Association’s Perspectives.

See it here:

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/november-2017/ties-once-broken-researching-the-families-of-a-single-slave-auction

                                                  

Remains of the Butler Island Plantation today; Picture courtesy of Geechee Griot

Anne C. Bailey

Author of The Weeping Time:Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History