Pierce Mease Butler

Events

1

Episodes

1

Years

1859

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Pierce Mease Butler, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. The Weeping Time: largest slave auction in U.S. history at Savannah

   1859

   Role: Slaveholder and absentee plantation owner

   1. 1March 2-3, 1859 · Ten Broeck Race CourseThe Weeping Time Auction

      Approximately 436 enslaved people from the Butler estate were sold over two days at Ten Broeck Race Course near Savannah.

Sources

1. Great Slave Auction Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-20