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The city of Savannah, Georgia, ... The city of Savannah was founded on that ... followed by an increase in the slave population from 9,478 in 1830 to 14,018 in 1850 ...
Savannah Female Asylum founded. [2] 1754 Savannah becomes capital of British Province of Georgia. [4] Pirates' House Inn in business. 1755 January 1: Georgia legislature convenes. [2] Independent Presbyterian Church founded. 1762 – Bonaventure Plantation established. c. 1764 – The Christian Camphor Cottage was built. It is believed to be ...
Moses Eastman (June 17, 1794 – May 24, 1850) was an American silversmith based in Savannah, Georgia. He was also the founder of, and sole benefactor in, the construction of Savannah's Unitarian Universalist Church .
The Georgia Gazette was the Georgia colony's first newspaper published in Savannah beginning April 7, 1763. [137] Today the Savannah Morning News is Savannah's only remaining daily newspaper. It first appeared on January 15, 1850, as the Daily Morning News .
Original caption of 1941 photograph: "Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia...This old woman was a slave and belonged to the family on whose place she now lives. She was a small girl when Sherman's army came through." (U.S. Department of Agriculture via NARA) Slavery in Georgia is known to have
Robert Watts was the leading Savannah slave seller of the immediate post-Revolutionary War era in Georgia Georgia in 1830. This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865.
Gazaway Bugg Lamar (October 2, 1798 – October 5, 1874) was an American slave owner and merchant in cotton and shipping in Savannah, Georgia, and a steamboat pioneer.He was the first to use a prefabricated iron steamboat on local rivers, which was a commercial success.
William Tappan Thompson (August 31, 1812 – March 24, 1882). He co-founded the Savannah Morning News in the 1850s, known then as the Daily Morning News.One of his most notable works was Major Jones's Courtship, an epistolary novel.