Weeping Time by a Georgia Geechee
This Historic Book is an appropriate true story about the largest sale of African Americans slaves in America, in this book you will learn about the only culture birth out of slavery: The Gullah Geechee Culture. You will learn about the last slave from the Butler Plantation Darien, Georgia. The city of Darien Georgia, and its great citizens was ahead of its' time and more courageous then any other city in America, in the year 1739 was the first city or at least one of the first in America to file a petition to the Government of their time to end slavery some 70 years before the abolition of slavery to became law in America history (1808), 48 years before the Constitution of the United States of America (1787), 50 years before we had our first President of the united states of America (1789 George Washington). The main objective of this book is to commemorate this historical event that brought ground-breaking change to America, to educate others and to honor all of the great people that made it a reality. Great history from 1619 to 2009. The year 2009 mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. 2008 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the U.S. slave trade in 1808. And 2009 also marks the 150 anniversary of the "Weeping Time" largest slave sale in America history, 1859. Lotson the author of this book develop and design the first National Monument to honor the abolition of slavery in the United States of America, with the great hope that other monuments will follow by other cities, Communities and leaders all over America. Griffin Lotson once more has put "pen to paper" in writing this book to help others to understand and know more about this rich history.
172 pages
English edition · First published 2009 by Wordclay · ISBN 9781604815986
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