University of North Carolina-Asheville’s Department of Religious Studies is sponsoring a re-examination of ‘The Weeping Time’ — one of the largest slave auctions in United States history –on March 3rd in UNCA’s Karpen Hall. Doctor Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, an African-American history scholar and keynote speaker at the 2015 South-Eastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium, will discuss his research into the auction on the date of its 156th Anniversary.
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Scholar of African-American history Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson will discuss his research into the hidden landscapes of slavery in coastal Georgia. His lecture, “Unearthing the ‘Weeping Time,’ and the 1859 Savannah Slave Auction: A Genealogy of People and Place,” is free and open to the public, and will be held from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, in UNC Asheville’s Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.
DeGraft-Hanson’s lecture, originally scheduled for February but postponed due to snow, now will take place on the exact anniversary date of the ‘the Weeping Time,’ the name now given to one of the largest slave auctions in U.S. history.
On March 3, 156 years ago, 436 men, women and children were sold at the Ten Broeck Race Course, now an obscured landscape on the outskirts of Savannah, Ga. DeGraft-Hanson will discuss how the landscape of the Ten Broeck Race Course can be re-imagined into Savannah’s historic memory through archival research, oral history, physical observations of the landscape, and the art of mapmaking.
DeGraft-Hanson earned his Ph.D. from Emory University and was the keynote speaker at the 2015 SouthEastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium. He was awarded a Georgia Humanities Council Grant in 2014 for his presentations on slavery in that state.
This event is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Department of Religious Studies. For more information, contact Marcus Harvey at mharvey1@unca.edu or 828-251-6177.
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