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Born in Indiana as A. Macon Bolling, he moved to New England at some point in the early 1840s and changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen in Boston in January 1844. [1] Soon after, Allen moved to Portland, Maine and studied law, working as an apprentice to Samuel Fessenden, a local abolitionist and attorney. The Portland District Court rejected ...
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
Both remain in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond, authorities said. Lawrenceville is about a 30-mile drive northeast from downtown Atlanta. Unresponsive 6-year-old taken to fire station dies ...
Macon parents arrested after children were found with serious injuries, investigators say. Jeremy Chisenhall. September 21, 2024 at 10:20 AM ... according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
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White County is a county in the Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,003. [1] The county seat is Cleveland. [2] The county was created on December 22, 1857, formerly a part of Habersham County and most likely was named for Newton County Representative David T. White, who helped a Habersham representative successfully attain passage of an ...