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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
This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865. Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [1]
Although Congress had banned the slave trade in 1808, Georgia's slave population continued to grow with the importation of slaves from the plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Chesapeake Tidewater, increasing from 149,656 in 1820 to 280,944 in 1840. [33] A small population of free blacks developed, mostly working as artisans.
Their children were Charles Estlin Phillips (1852–1938), William Ivens (1855–1926), Brougham H. (1857–1920), Ellen A. Craft (1863–1917) and Alfred G. (1871–1939). Three of their children came with them when the Crafts returned to the United States after the American Civil War. [4] Ellen Craft dressed as a man to escape from slavery.
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 ...
Descendants of enslaved people who populate a tiny island community are once again fighting their local government, this time over a proposal to eliminate protections that for decades helped ...
Leaders of Georgia’s oldest city voted Thursday to strip the name of a former U.S. vice president and vocal slavery The post Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocate appeared ...
Zoning changes by a Georgia county that some residents say threaten one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants can't be challenged with a referendum, an attorney ...