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African-American Georgians are residents of the U.S. state of Georgia who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, African Americans were 31.2% of the state's population. [4] Georgia has the second largest African American population in the United States following Texas. [5] Georgia also has a gullah community. [6] African ...
Importing slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856.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.
Ebenezer Creek is a tributary of the Savannah River in Effingham County, Georgia, about 20 miles north of the city of Savannah. During the American Civil War, an incident at the creek resulted in the drowning of many freed slaves.
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 ...
The African-American Monument is a public monument in Savannah, Georgia, United States, dedicated in 2002. Located near River Street along the city's waterfront with the Savannah River , the monument commemorates African Americans in the city and highlights the "invisible story of the Trans Atlantic slave trade". [ 1 ]
“He founded slave-free Georgia in 1733 and, 100 years later, England abolishes slavery,” followed by the U.S. in 1865, Thurmond said. “He was a man far beyond his time.”
Sites from African American history, a suburban Atlanta neighborhood and a rural fairground are among the 10 Places in Peril The post African American sites top Georgia’s 10 ‘Places in Peril ...
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