Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Storyteller Lillian Grant-Baptiste performs a libation ceremony at the historical marker for the Weeping Time on Saturday, March 2 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Annual commemorations began Thursday for one of the largest slave sales in United States history. It’s called the Weeping Time and happened in Savannah nearly 165 years ago.

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 ...

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.