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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 ]
Slave markets existed in several Georgia cities and towns, including Albany, [16] Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville, and above all, in Savannah. [17] In 1859 Savannah was the site of a slave sale colloquially known as the Weeping Time , one of the largest slave sales in the history of the United States. [ 18 ]
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]
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.
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Pages in category "People enslaved in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
United States map of the Black American population from 1900 U.S. Census There were few alternative jobs in the Black Belt region. When factories opened or retooled to supply the war effort in World War II, and the military draft was introduced, large numbers of African American farmers left for the army or cash-paying jobs in nearby or distant ...
Pages in category "African-American history of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .