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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.
“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 ...
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]
"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 ...
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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.
Written in 1961 by Lillian Smith — said to have lived briefly in Macon — this ahead-of-its-time portrait of the South circa 1910 is on one level a charming tale of family life, but running ...