Summary: This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we explore the story of the largest slave auction in American history when some 436 enslaved people were sold in a two-day auction in 1859. To the people sold and the people they left behind, it would forever be known as “the weeping time.” I speak with historian Anne C. Bailey, author of The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.
