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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating ... The community of dirt roads and modest homes was founded after the Civil War by former slaves from the cotton plantation of Thomas ...

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.

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 ...