The historic Savannah Cotton Exchange is for sale for the first time in over 100 years. A letter to the editor proposes the city purchase the building to create a museum on the cotton and slave trade.

The 19th-century building housed the city’s cotton traders after the Civil War. More recently, it’s been home to a storied Masonic Lodge. The Cotton Exchange, a 19th-century building that housed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Nine months after ...

SAVANNAH — Local advocates are trying to ensure the memory of the sale of more than 400 enslaved Africans in Savannah over two rain-soaked days is not forgotten. On March 2 and 3, 1859, at the Ten ...

"We remember the 429 souls", commemorating the Weeping Time On March 2-3 1859 429 men, women, and children from the Butler Plantation in Darien were sold at a slave auction in Savannah.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Voters in a coastal Georgia county will decide Tuesday whether large homes should be allowed on remote Sapelo Island, where Black landowners fear the change could saddle them with ...