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 ...

Savannah, Georgia, is widely considered to be among the most haunted cities in the US. It’s incredibly historic, the setting ...

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 ...

The Gullah Geechee are descendants of enslaved people brought to Sapelo in the mid-1800s to work the island’s plantations ... to the Georgia Supreme Court. With no date yet set for the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

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.

DARIEN, Ga. (AP ... spent decades as a rice plantation before the Civil War. In 1859, owner Pierce Mease Butler infamously took more than 400 enslaved people to Savannah and sold them in ...

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

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 London in the United Kingdom. Bonaventure Cemetery, created in 1846 ...