Those allowances – from the King of England until 1776 and then Georgia’s governors after the American Colonies declared their independence – enabled the establishment of rice plantations ...

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 ...

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 ...

The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John. But Pierce had squandered away his portion of the ...

THOMASVILLE- Pebble Hill Plantation recently announced that it will participate in the Georgia History Festival’s Super ...

History and nature intertwine throughout the Golden Isles, but perhaps nowhere is it as apparent as on the north end of St. Simons, at Hampton Point. Imagine living among pre-Revolutionary ...

Along with the ruins, visitors can tour a small museum featuring artifacts unearthed at Wormsloe and watch a brief film about the site and ... who maintained the plantation. Many visitors said ...