TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,Anne C.
TI  - The weeping time: memory and the largest slave auction in American history 
SN  - 9781107193055 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - E442 .B35 2017
U1  - 306.3/6209758 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambrige university press
KW  - Butler, Pierce,
KW  - Butler family.
KW  - Jr.
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Biography
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The breach -- The weeping time -- The auction and its meaning -- Linked fates -- Pierce Butler and his grandfather's legacy -- Mr. and Mrs. Butler -- More than "hands:" African rhythms and work on the Butler Plantations -- Faith on the Butler estates -- A family divided, a nation divided -- Healing the breach -- Reconstruction and reconnecting threads -- Out of the silence: descendants restore family names -- Epilogue: History and the democratization of memory
ER  -