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  2. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Georgia is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so.

  3. African Americans in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] By the mid-19th century the majority of white people in Georgia, like most White Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. Georgia, with the largest number plantations of any state in the Southern United States, had in many respects come to epitomize plantation culture.

  4. Racial segregation in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.

  5. 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Headline and lead paragraph in The Atlanta Georgian of September 10, 1912, reporting the lynching of Rob Edwards Location of Forsyth County within the U.S. state of Georgia. In Forsyth County, Georgia, in September 1912, two separate alleged attacks on white women in the Cumming area resulted in black men being accused as suspects. First, a ...

  6. Category:History of racism in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Sundown towns in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Pages in category "History of racism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  7. Slavery-era Georgia law is key defense argument in trial over ...

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    A pivotal defense argument of the three white men on trial in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, is that they were trying to make a citizen's arrest under a Civil War-era law that ...

  8. List of expulsions of African Americans - Wikipedia

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    African Americans have been violently expelled from at least 50 towns, cities, and counties in the United States. Most of these expulsions occurred in the 60 years following the American Civil War but continued until 1954. The justifications for the expulsions varied but often involved a crime committed by White Americans, labor-related issues ...

  9. African Americans in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The Black Side: a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. (1894) Dorsey, Allison. To build our lives together: Community formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 (University of Georgia Press, 2004) online. Ferguson, Karen Jane. Black politics in New Deal Atlanta (Univ of North Carolina Press ...