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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 ]
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 ...
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]
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 .
Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves [2] either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century. [ 3 ] In Oklahoma before the end of segregation there existed dozens of these communities as many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they ...
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.
1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia; 1970 Augusta riot; 2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election; 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia; 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia