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About Us. Contact Us. Over the next few years the trustees proceeded to sell off various Butler properties. A small fraction of those obligations were the quarterly payments Pierce Butler was required to pay to his then-estranged ex-wife Frances Anne Kemble as part of their divorce agreement 10 years prior. In one of the many ironies, Fanny Kemble, as she was called, was an avowed and outspoken abolitionist and had made much of the fact during the time she was married to Pierce Butler.
This difference was a constant source of contention throughout their tumultuous year marriage and ultimately contributed to its dissolution. At the time they were wed in , Fanny claimed she knew nothing of how the Butler wealth was acquired, but it soon became apparent after a trip to visit the plantations in what the true nature of the Butler inheritance was.
Fanny Kemble was a revered Shakespearean actress from London on tour when she met Butler in Philadelphia. Kemble was, by all accounts, a strong-willed and independently minded woman of her own making, tendencies Butler aimed to tame. Nevertheless, they were married two years after Butler's unremitting courtship and Kemble reestablished herself in America.
Once Kemble found out about Butler's Georgia plantations, she begged him to take her down to witness first hand what she'd previously only heard and read about in her native England. Despite his better judgement, Butler brought Kemble with him in late to visit the plantations and what Kemble found was every bit as callous and horrible as she'd imagined. Kemble cataloged her stay in her diaries, which were eventually published some years later as Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation and to this day it's considered one of the most detailed eyewitness accounts of slavery during that period.
Kemble's journals weren't published until —in the middle of America's Civil War—due to custody issues with Butler over their two daughters.
Her journals ended up playing a significant role in the anti-slavery debate raging at the time. Kemble was long out of the picture by the time the Butler slave auction took place they were divorced in But the most virulent phase of great slavery debate was only just getting under way.
Just a few months before the Butler auction, the now infamous slave ship the Wanderer had landed at Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia with more than illegal slaves brought directly from the Congo. This was one of the last documented slave ships to arrive in North American and it created a roiling controversy.
Records indicate that nearly 80 slaves perished on the voyage. The crew of the Wanderer were awaiting trial at the time of the Butler slave auction, but the sentiment in the South was such that they were all eventually found not guilty and set free with impunity.
This was the atmosphere surrounding what would be the largest slave auction ever on American soil. The notorious slave trader Joseph Bryan was enlisted to conduct the Butler slave auction and it was originally scheduled to take place in Savannah's Johnson Square, directly in the city's center, where Bryan's slave holding pens and brokerage was.
But it was soon determined there wouldn't be enough room to accommodate the buyers they expected, so the location was moved to the Ten Broeck Race Course two-and-a-quarter miles west of downtown.
For weeks before the auction, Bryan took out ads in papers across the south advertising the sale. End Zone. Veterans Day. Taking Care of Business. Morning Break. First Alert Weather Podcast. About Us. Contact Us. Antenna Tips. Latest Newscasts. Investigate TV. Gray DC Bureau. Descendants of The Weeping Time gather.
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