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 ...

Jerry Williams, a Savannah physician ... In satellite images, Georgia’s former rice plantations stand out like misplaced puzzle pieces with their grid-like systems of ditches and canals abutting ...

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 ...

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 ...