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

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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.

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

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