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 ...

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. (AP) — Georgia's highest court waded Wednesday into ... a community of dirt roads and modest homes founded by their enslaved ancestors who worked the cotton plantation of Thomas Spalding ...

Written by Paul Holm. Graphics by Paul Holm. In the dreadfully uncivilized year of 1733, James Edward Oglethorpe and 114 ragged, debt-ridden colonists washed up on the muddy banks of the Savannah ...

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 ...

Elliott, a soft-spoken Georgia native ... Ossabaw's first plantation was owned by John Morel, a Savannah merchant, who acquired the island in 1763, not long after a contemporary gave it a lukewarm ...

Georgia has a collection of barrier islands that stretch from Savannah to Cumberland Island ... At the time, the English established a tobacco plantation, but the area quickly attracted other ...

Originally called the Evergreen Cemetery (and occupying land previously used for a plantation), the Victorian-style cemetery was purchased by the city of Savannah in 1907 and redesigned to its ...

Monday afternoon, local American Red Cross volunteers from the Southeast Georgia Chapter responded to a fire at Live Oak Plantation Apartments on Waters Avenue in Savannah, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court waded ... homes founded by their enslaved ancestors who worked the cotton plantation of Thomas Spalding. It’s among a dwindling number of small ...