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William Henry Smith 1857 - 1930

William Henry Smith of Portland Australia was born in 1857 to John Skerritt Smith and Mary Jane Carr Smith. He had siblings John Carr Smith, George Edward Smith, Edis Skerrit Smith, Walter Samuel Smith, and Anna Mary Smith. William Smith died at age 73 years old in 1930 in Portland.
William Henry Smith
Portland Australia
1857
1930
Portland, Australia
Male
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    1930
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    Portland Australia
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In 1857, in the year that William Henry Smith was born, on March 2nd, the largest slave auction in US history was begun. Called "The Weeping Time", the auction lasted 2 days. Slave owner Pierce M. Butler - who had inherited the slaves 20 years before but was now deeply in debt - sold 436 men, women, children, and infants, all of whom were kept in stalls at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. The people were held for weeks before the auction in the horse stalls.
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In 1865, at the age of only 8 years old, William was alive when on December 24th, 8 months after the end of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee by Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby. They wanted to fight Reconstruction after the Civil War and to intimidate what were called "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" - northern and southern whites who supported reconstruction. They also wanted to repress the newly freed slaves.
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