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  2. Brooks County, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The county was created in 1858 from portions of Lowndes and Thomas counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and was named for pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks, after he severely beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for delivering a speech attacking slavery.

  3. List of Georgia and Florida slave traders - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  4. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Brooks County race war - Wikipedia

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    The Brooks County "race war" was a series of lynchings of African-Americans committed in Brooks County, Georgia in the United States in December 1894. It was called a "race war" at the time. It was called a "race war" at the time.

  6. Category : African-American history of Georgia (U.S. state)

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    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

  7. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    [57] Native American slavery is legal throughout Georgia, however, and African slavery is later introduced in 1749. 1738: Spanish Florida: Fort Mosé, the first legal settlement of free blacks in what is today the United States, is established. Word of the settlement sparks the Stono Rebellion in Carolina the following year. 1746 Great Britain

  8. Slave descendants on Georgia island fighting to keep ...

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    The rules were enacted in 1994 for the sole purpose of protecting one of the South's few remaining communities of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave ...

  9. African Americans in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Slaves from Georgia were also brought to Georgia by South Carolinian and Caribbean owners and those purchased in South Carolina, around 44% black slaves in Georgia were shipped to the colony from West Africa (57%), from or via the Caribbean (37%), and from the other mainland colonies in the United States (6%) in the years between 175s and 1771.