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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.
The institution of slavery had a profound impact on the politics of the Southern United States, causing the American Civil War and continued subjugation of African-Americans from the Reconstruction era to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Scholars have linked slavery to contemporary political attitudes, including racial resentment. [2]
George Clinton (incumbent) New York: 113 John Langdon: New Hampshire: 9 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Federalist: South Carolina: 60,976 31.70% 47 Rufus King: New York: 47 George Clinton: Democratic-Republican: New York — — 6 James Madison: Virginia: 3 James Monroe: Virginia: 3 James Monroe: Democratic-Republican: Virginia: 5,618 2.92% 0 ...
Georgia cast six electoral votes for the Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison over the Federalist candidate Charles C. Pinckney. The electoral votes for Vice president were cast for Madison's running mate George Clinton from New York. These electors were elected by the Georgia General Assembly, the state legislature, rather than by ...
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter owner, 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. Smith's wife gave the 11-year-old Ellen as a ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Georgia, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Georgia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, when it had seceded in the American Civil War .
Matthew E. Mason. Slavery Overshadowed: Congress Debates Prohibiting the Atlantic Slave Trade to the United States, 1806–1807. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), pp. 59–81
The 1796 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on 4 November 1796, as part of the 1796 United States presidential election. The voters chose four representatives, or electors, through plurality block voting to the Electoral College. These electors then voted for President and vice president. [1]