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Inside the Struggle to Preserve Georgia's Butler Island, Home to a Notorious Plantation
She says all Black Americans, not just those with family ties to the plantation, should learn about it: “Our people need to know what struggle we had.” For the communities around Georgia’s ...
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"What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation"
Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...
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Antebellum Slavery
Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation, written during her four-month stay on Butler Island, gives an eyewitness account of the miserable living conditions, infant mortality, and physical ...
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Inside the Struggle to Preserve Georgia’s Butler Island, Home to a Notorious Plantation
She says all Black Americans, not just those with family ties to the plantation, should learn about it: “Our people need to know what struggle we had.” For the communities around Georgia’s ...