Commemorations begin for The Weeping Time, the largest slave sale in Georgia history wtoc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtoc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Kiplyn Primus is interviewed by Rob Maynard about her relationship to The Weeping Time Story which she first covered in 2016. Primus has gone from interviewer to participant after learning about her connection to the event.
Observed annually in March, The Weeping Time refers to the sale of 429 people in 1859 in Savannah the largest recorded sale of enslaved people in U.S. history.