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History of slavery in Georgia

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352:, by between two and four enslaved men. Such campsites were apparently typical to the transportation of slaves by overland coffle, as a letter written from Georgia in 1833 described, "During this and other days I have passed by many negro traders, who were crossing to Alabama. These negro traders, in order to save expense, usually carry their own provisions, and encamp out at night. Passing many of these encampments early in the morning, when they were just pitching tents, I have observed groups of negroes hand-cuffed, probably to prevent them from running away. The driver told us, that a thousand negroes had gone on his road to Alabama, the present spring." Slaves working "collectively" to do violence to "cruel owners" was a comparative "rarity" in the history of antebellum violence by the enslaved in Virginia, but "Having left Maryland and their homes behind, likely believed that violence afforded them the last possible opportunity to escape whatever fate awaited them in Georgia. Georgia offered fewer opportunities for escape than Maryland. The movement south threw the slaves lives into flux." 39: 235: 167: 323:, for the purpose of furnishing slaves to the planters of Georgia. Augusta is the market to which the planters of Upper and Middle Georgia bring their cotton; and if they want to purchase negroes, they step over into Hamburg and do so. There are two large houses there, with piazzas in front to expose the 'chattels' to the public during the day, and yards in rear of them where they are penned up at night like sheep, so close that they can hardly breathe, with bull-dogs on the outside as sentinels. They sometimes have thousands here for sale, who in consequence of their number suffer most horribly." 105:
included captives from wars and slave raids; captives bartered from other tribes, sometimes at great distances; children sold by their parents during famines; and men and women who staked themselves in gambling when they had nothing else, which put them into servitude in some cases for life. However, there were differences between the styles of slavery. European slavery was specifically focused racism and the concept of racial inferiority, something that had not been documented in Native American societies prior to contact.
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with security, given the closeness of then Spanish Florida, and Spain's regular offers to enemy-slaves to revolt or escape. Despite agitation for slavery, it was not until a defeat of the Spanish by Georgia colonials in the 1740s that arguments for opening the colony to slavery intensified. To staff the rice plantations and settlements, Georgia's proprietors relented in 1751, and African slavery grew quickly. After becoming a royal colony, in the 1760s Georgia began importing slaves directly from Africa.
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wrote in 1858, "Macon, you must know, is one of the principal marts for slaves in the South. Some time ago, I attended on the city's confines an extraordinarily large auction of slaves, including a gang of sixty-one from a plantation in southwestern Georgia. The prices brought were comparatively low,
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differed greatly depending on the colony, nature of work, the size of the enslaved workforce, temperament, and the power of the enslaver. Additionally there had been a variety of psychological experiences of those that experienced slavery from birth, versus those born free, and differences across the
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that concluded, "The laws of our State are severe, inflicting heavy fines and Penitentiary confinement on such as shall be convicted of these offences Our own safety requires us to be vigilant in preventing the outcasts and convicted felons of other communities from being brought into ours. And all
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slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856. Despite these restrictions, researchers estimate that Georgians "transported approximately fifty thousand bonded African Americans" from other slave states between 1820 and 1860. Some of these imports were legal transfers,
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to be established and the furthest south (Florida was not one of the Thirteen Colonies). Founded in the 1730s, Georgia's powerful backers did not object to slavery as an institution, but their business model was to rely on labor from Britain (primarily England's poor) and they were also concerned
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Native Americans enslaved members of their own and other tribes before Europeans arrived (and afterwards, continuing into the 1800s); slaves might or might not be adopted eventually, especially if enslaved as children; and the enslavement might or might not be hereditary. Native American slaves
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in 1863, which proclaimed that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. Since the U.S. government was not in effective control of many of these territories until later in the war, many of these slaves proclaimed to be free by the Emancipation
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had been an active port for exporting the commodity cotton overseas, African American slaves carried cotton (as well as rice) from the warehouse areas to the boats, and African American slaves laid the cobble stones to create River Street.
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as there was no warranty of soundness, and owing very much, also, to the fact that the slaves were all sold in families." At the beginning of the American Civil War, active traders in Atlanta included Robert M. Clarke, Solomon Cohen,
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Another example of slave importation to Georgia during this period is known from the 1834 killing of "negro traders" Jesse Kirby and John Kirby by enslaved men they were transporting overland to Georgia in a
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on the current Georgia coast, after failing to establish the colony on the Carolina coast. They rebelled and lived with indigenous people, destroying the colony in less than two months.
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and to the revitalization of the agricultural slave labor system in the northern states. The U.S. economy soon became dependent upon cotton production and the sale of cotton to
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those entrusted with the administration of the laws are bound to use their utmost efforts to bring to just punishment such as shall be guilty of this nature."
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Against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth: physical confrontations between slaves and whites in antebellum Virginia, 1801-1860
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Slaves intended for "personal use" could be imported which resulted in a number of workarounds used by traders. One described in the
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Slave markets existed in several Georgia cities and towns, including Albany, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon,
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is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of
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Proclamation were still held in servitude until those areas came back under Union control.
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to have done so. However, it was legalized by royal decree in 1751, in part due to
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This article is about slavery in the U.S. state. For slavery in the country, see
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Bank apologized to Georgia's African-American community for its predecessor (
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others were not. Samuel Oakes, the father of a Charleston slave trader named
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Francis, J. Michael, Gary Mormino and Rachel Sanderson (August 29, 2019).
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Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South
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Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860.
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The first enslaved Africans in Georgia arrived in 1526 with
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U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia
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in 1793. The gin was first demonstrated to an audience on
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Net slaves entries and exits to Georgia (Tadman 1989 via
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Black diamonds gathered in the darkey homes of the South
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on January 19, 1861. Years later, in 1865, during his
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in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale
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Georgia voted to secede from the Union and join the
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Slavery in Georgia
Slavery in medieval Europe

Harmony Community
Putnam County, Georgia
Sherman's army
U.S. Department of Agriculture
NARA
slavery
plantation slavery
Province of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
thirteen colonies
George Whitefield
Georgia Experiment
Colonial America
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón
San Miguel de Gualdape
Thirteen Colonies

Crawford, Frazer & Co.
Atlanta

history of American slavery
Eli Whitney
cotton gin
Revolutionary War
Nathanael Greene
Savannah
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