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Pamphlet Review - "Great Auction-Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia" - Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic Monthly 1859-09-01
"What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation: A Sequel to Mrs. Kembel's Journal?" - Mortimer Thomson - Pamphlet reprint
". . .Leaving the Race building, where the scenes we have described took place, a crowd of negroes were seen gathered eagerly about a white man. That man was Pierce M. Butler, of the free City of Philadelphia, who was solacing the wounded hearts of the people he had sold from their firesides and their homes, by doling out to them small change at the rate of a dollar a-head. To every negro he had sold, who presented his claim for the paltry pittance, he gave the munificent stipend of one whole dollar, in specie; he being provided with two canvas bags of 25 cent pieces, fresh from the mind, to give an additional glitter to his generosity. . ."
"American Civilization Illustrated" - Mortimer Thomson - New York Tribune
The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, at the see Course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Major Butler plantations which fell to one of the two heirs to that estate.
The New York Tribune 1859-03-09