What Became of the Slaves on A Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah Georgia March 2d & 3d 1859.

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 Race-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. Major Butler dying left a property valued at more than a million of dollars the major part of which was invested in rice and cotton plantations and the slaves thereon all of which immense fortune descended to two heirs his sons Mr. John A. Butler sometime deceased and Mr. Pierce M. Butler still living and resident in the City of Philadelphia in the free State of Pennsylvania.