For the first time during Black History Month, thousands of documents connected to slavery in Bibb County are available to ...

Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants submitted ... Elected commissioners in Georgia's McIntosh County voted in September to weaken zoning ...

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Robertson said slaves as young as 5 years old contributed to Georgia’s economy and their descendants deserve to be paid for their labor- “It has been over 26 decades of uncompensated wages of ...

The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John.

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...

I fully agree with Dr. King’s quote suggesting that we judge people by the content of their character, and not just the color ...