The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John.

Wilhelmina “Willy” Peluso survived the Nazi-occupied Netherlands and breast cancer, but like millions of Americans, the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The family of the late Cook County Commissioner Jerry "Iceman" Butler is appealing to his caretaker, who has planned a visitation and funeral for him. The 85-year-old Chicago soul ...