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Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the Northern United States in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.
Slave markets existed in several Georgia cities and towns, including Albany, [17] Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville, and above all, in Savannah. [18] In 1859 Savannah was the site of a slave sale colloquially known as the Weeping Time, one of the largest slave sales in the history of the United States. [19]
“Known as ‘Macon’s Black Wall Street,’ the District is historically important as an educational, professional, business, and residential area for African Americans in Middle Georgia ...
"New Spring Goods" Georgia Journal and Messenger, Macon, Georgia, April 18, 1844. In 1846, D. W. Orr wrote a letter to South Carolina planter and slave trader John Springs III: [9] [M]y brother has charge of the mercantile business at home and I have been engaged the majority of my time for twelve mos [months] in the purchase and sale of Negroes.
And in April, markers were unveiled downtown telling the long scarcely mentioned history of Macon’s mid-1800s slave markets as well as the story of the Cotton Avenue District, a historic hub for ...
The project sought to connect people to ancestors and allow them to learn more about the history of enslaved people in the U.S.
Slaves from Georgia were also brought to Georgia by South Carolinian and Caribbean owners and those purchased in South Carolina, around 44% black slaves in Georgia were shipped to the colony from West Africa (57%), from or via the Caribbean (37%), and from the other mainland colonies in the United States (6%) in the years between 175s and 1771.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]