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Original caption of 1941 photograph: "Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia...This old woman was a slave and belonged to the family on whose place she now lives. She was a small girl when Sherman's army came through." (U.S. Department of Agriculture via NARA) Slavery in Georgia is known to have
The Kingdom of Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː /) [nb 1] was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. [1] It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. [2]
The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is an ongoing Internet-based research and archival initiative of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation meant to advance the historical understanding of slavery and slave-based society in the United States and the Caribbean in the time before the American Civil War.
Note 2: It was technically illegal to import slaves into Georgia from other states from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856, [3] but there was no law prohibiting the sale of slaves just across the border in the lands of the Cherokee Nation in what became the northwest quadrant of the state after Indian Removal, or across the Savannah River ...
The University of Georgia Press will release on Wednesday Thurmond’s book, “James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist.”
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.” Show comments
African slaves imported to Georgia primarily came from Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. [9] Slaves were also imported from South Carolina and the West Indies. [10] Slaves mostly worked on cotton and rice plantations. [11] [12] By the mid-19th century the majority of white people in Georgia, like most White Southerners, had come to view ...
Kinkor was the compiler and editor of the Whydah Sourcebook containing a vast collection of 17th and 18th century archival records concerning the history of the British slave ship Whydah Galley, its capture by the crew of pirate Samuel Bellamy, its demise at Cape Cod, and the court trial and testimonies of the surviving crew.