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This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865. Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [ 1 ]
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.
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Lynching African Americans was also common in Georgia. White mobs would lynch black men. [17] Georgia became a slave state in 1751. [18] Initially, Georgia was the only British colony in the United States to try to ban slavery. [19] White slaveholders would frequently beat and sometimes had killed slaves. [20]
Since 1976, the state of Georgia has owned most of its 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of largely unspoiled wilderness. Hogg Hummock, also known as Hog Hammock, sits on less than a square mile.
Plantations in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 C, 47 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The slave ban was widely ignored when Oglethorpe left Georgia for good in 1743, and its enforcement dwindled in his absence. By the time American colonists declared independence in 1776, slavery ...
History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 C, 20 P) I. History of slavery in Indiana (7 P) K. History of slavery in Kansas (1 C, 3 P) History of slavery in ...