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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 ]
The sale price was $3,600 for the pair, likely paid in Confederate currency. [1] Another such receipt is for Ben, a 21-year-old who sold for $3,200. [ 9 ] In September 1863, Crawford, Frazer & Co. donated $1,000 to a fund for the care of the Confederate wounded from the Battle of Chickamauga .
In May 1848, D. W. Orr placed a runaway slave ad in the Augusta Daily Constitutionalist that indicated the Orrs had been buying in Richmond, and had ties to Augusta, Georgia and the Hamburg, South Carolina slave market immediately across the Savannah River, which was used until 1856 as a means to circumvent Georgia's anti-slave trading law. [14]
Listing for the Joseph Bond sale - "Sales of Land and Negroes in South Western Georgia," Albany Patriot via Macon Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1860 This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner.
Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island vowed to keep fighting Tuesday after county commissioners voted to double the maximum size of homes allowed in their tiny enclave, which ...
Black residents of a tiny island enclave founded by their enslaved ancestors off the Georgia coast have filed suit seeking to halt a new zoning law that they say will raise taxes and force them to ...
Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes. July 9, 2024 at 2:29 PM. DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Residents of one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee ...
She published it in 1883, titled Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation (ISBN 1-498-15893-5). [9] Due to the lack of slave labor, and the postwar depression in the Southern United States, plantations failed, and the fifth generation of Butlers sold the remains of their lands in 1923. [10] Historical marker about the Weeping Time