Macon georgia history of slavery

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      Ellen and William lived in Macon, Georgia, and were owned by different masters. By the age of 16, William had witnessed the sale of his frightened, tearful 14-year-old sister and his parents and brother had met the same fate and were scattered throughout the South.

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    • [DOCX File]MRS. GRAVOLET'S CLASS

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      On November 1, 1850, The Liberator, a Boston anti-slavery newspaper, alerted local residents to the presence of "two prowling villains." It said that the two slave catchers had come from Macon, Georgia. Their goal was to capture William and Ellen Craft, a runaway slave couple under the Fugitive Slave Law. The newspaper wrote that the slave catchers

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      The Industrial Revolution brought not only new job opportunities but new laborers to the workforce, namely children. By 1900, 18% of all American workers were under the age of 16. Many children worked in mills - these boys were hard at work in the Bibb Mill in Macon, Georgia.

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    • [DOC File]Dramatic Newspaper Coverage of the Battle of Fort Sumter ...

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      Nov 19, 2009 · The following account was printed by the Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia) on April 5, 1861: Stopping the Supplies to Fort Sumter. The Charleston Mercury of Wednesday says: We understand the liberal supplies heretofore permitted to Major Anderson will shortly be cut off.

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    • [DOCX File]Section 7 - The Dred Scott Decision - chino.k12.ca.us

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      With the new law in place, many former slaves saw that their only chance for real safety was to get out of the country entirely. William and Ellen Craft escaped slavery in Macon, Georgia, in 1848. They went first to Philadelphia, and then farther north to Boston. Even there, they weren’t safe.

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    • [DOCX File]Overview Homepage (U.S. National Park Service)

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      Georgia’s African BrigadeSlave to Soldier. Fourth Edition. 5620-2018. Ref.: Georgia’s African Brigade History Dear Sir/Madame: As the Cultural Resources Specialist/Historian for Ocmulgee National Monument, one of my responsibilities is to research and obtain information, documents and artifacts associated with the current and future interpretive themes designated by the Washington Support ...

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      Although the Seminole Indians returned to the United States in 1858, the Seminole Negroes did not. They feared kidnapping and a return to slavery back in the United States. Mexico prohibited slavery. As a result, the Seminole blacks were safe as long as they lived south of the Rio Grande.

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    • [DOC File]Exhibition Text - American Library Association

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      Slavery a Moral institution, Sanctioned by the Scriptures... and the Preaching and Practice of the Saviour and His Apostles, By a Southern Farmer, Macon, Georgia, 1837. (Huntington Library) Slaveholders needed racism—the belief that the enslaved blacks were an inferior race.

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    • [DOC File]The Southern “Black Codes” of 1865-66

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      AP US History. Unit 5 – The Civil War. The Southern “Black Codes” of 1865-66. The end of the Civil War marked the end of slavery for 4 million black Southerners. But the war also left them landless and with little money to support themselves. White Southerners, seeking to control the freedmen (former slaves), devised special state law codes.

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    • Northeastern University

      Slavery by the Name of Turpentine: The Lynching of Odis Price. ... from Macon, Georgia, who had seen Price’s body and knew about circumstances preceding the murder, wrote a letter to the national office of the NAACP, informing them about the lynching on September 24. ... The Georgia-Florida Sawmill Association resolved “to make the vagrancy ...

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