Reachable only by boat, the island is mostly owned by the state of Georgia. About 30 to 50 Black residents still live in Hogg Hummock, founded by former slaves who had worked the island plantation ...

Georgia’s youngest state representative pays homage to civil rights leaders with his own community-informed policy agenda, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected a tiny Georgia island community populated by slaves’ descendants, its Black residents hope to ...

Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle. Their horrifying ordeal has been revealed by three Thai women who were ...

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.

The farmhouse in Georgia, once owned by the ancestors of ... There were four entries for his “Number of Slaves” column – four males, ages from 10 to 18. There was more.

12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected the tiny Georgia island community populated by the descendants of enslaved people ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected a tiny Georgia island community populated by slaves’ descendants, its Black residents hope to ...