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  2. Amerindian slave ownership - Wikipedia

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    The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only applied to States in rebellion, and did not legally affect slavery in Native American areas that fought for the Confederate States of America. Upon ratification of the 13th Amendment, slaves in the US were emancipated in 1865. [1] In practice, slavery continued in some Native American territories.

  3. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Importing slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856. [22] Despite these restrictions, researchers estimate that Georgians "transported approximately fifty thousand bonded African Americans" from other slave states between 1820 and 1860. [23] Some of these imports were legal transfers, others were not.

  4. Slavery among Native Americans in the United States

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    The Indian Wars of the early 18th century, combined with the increasing importation of African slaves, effectively ended the Native American slave trade by 1750. Colonists found that Native American slaves could easily escape, as they knew the country. The wars cost the lives of numerous colonial slave traders and disrupted their early societies.

  5. Indian slave trade in the American Southeast - Wikipedia

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    By 1715 the Native American slave population in the Carolina colony was estimated at 1,850. [11] Prior to 1720, when it ended the Native American slave trade, Carolina exported as many or more Native American slaves than it imported Africans. [3] [4] [5] This trade system involved the Westo tribe, who had previously come down from further north.

  6. History of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    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. [32] A small population of free blacks developed, mostly working as artisans.

  7. Slave descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say ...

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    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — 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 ...

  8. Joseph Vann - Wikipedia

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    Joseph H. Vann (11 February 1798 – 23 October 1844) was a Cherokee leader of mixed-race ancestry, a businessman and planter in Georgia, Tennessee and Indian Territory. He owned plantations, many slaves, taverns, and steamboats.

  9. Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep ... - AOL

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    Since 1976, the state of Georgia has owned most of its 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) of mostly unspoiled wilderness. Hogg Hummock, also known as Hog Hammock, sits on less than a square ...