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Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter owner, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
"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.
Titus Brown. "Origins of African American Education in Macon, Georgia 1865–1866", Journal of South Georgia History, Oct 1996, Vol. 11, pp 43–59; Macon: An Architectural Historical Guide (Macon, Ga.: Middle Georgia Historical Society, 1996). Macon's Black Heritage: The Untold Story (Macon, Ga.: Tubman African American Museum, 1997).
“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]
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 ...
Macon (/ ˈ m eɪ k ən / MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States.Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "The Heart of Georgia".
This is social history of the highest order, the portrait of an adolescent living in the home of slave owners. It’s not so much about the Confederacy but about the inner life of the precocious ...