Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The ... at the Race-course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted ...

Starting the day after Election Day, Black Americans across nearly a dozen states have received texts telling them they have ...

In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah ... had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. − Engineers and other experts were ... starting as slaves on the plantations. The plantations, stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to Jacksonville, were confiscated by ...

The gangway collapsed Saturday as festival goers prepared to board a ferry amid Sapelo Island's annual Cultural Day, ...

Survivors of a deadly walkway collapse at a state-operated ferry dock in Georgia say state officials should help them pay for ...

Here you'll find the ruins of Wormsloe, the oldest standing structure in Savannah and the Colonial estate of Noble Jones, a carpenter who came to Georgia in 1733 with James Oglethorpe and the ...

Bonaventure Cemetery near Savannah, Georgia; Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana; Catacombs of Paris in France; and Tower of ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. ‒ "Catastrophic failure" was blamed ... many of them descendants of people enslaved at Sapelo plantations. No residents of the island were among the fatalities, Rabon said.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Survivors of a deadly walkway collapse at a ... where slaves who worked isolated island plantations ...