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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 ]
Importing slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856. [21] Despite these restrictions, researchers estimate that Georgians "transported approximately fifty thousand bonded African Americans" from other slave states between 1820 and 1860. [22] Some of these imports were legal transfers, others were not.
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]
Although Congress had banned the slave trade in 1808, Georgia's slave population continued to grow with the importation of slaves from the plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Chesapeake Tidewater, increasing from 149,656 in 1820 to 280,944 in 1840. [33] A small population of free blacks developed, mostly working as artisans.
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.
African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia (U.S. state) (5 P) African-American people in Georgia (U.S. state) politics (3 C, 28 P) Albany State University (2 C, 2 P)
A. J. Orr in 1850 slave schedule for Bibb County, Georgia D. W. H. Orr in the 1850 United States census, sharing a household with Silas Omohundro and living next door to Hector Davis in 1850, D. W. Orr was a resident of Richmond, Virginia, where he shared a household with fellow slave trader Silas Omohundro . [ 15 ]
For instance, he noted that in 1850, more than 80% of black slaveholders were of mixed race, but nearly 90% of their slaves were classified as black. [17] Koger also noted that many South Carolina free blacks operated small businesses as skilled artisans, and many owned slaves working in those businesses.