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 ...

It's a good road, mostly divided and smooth, paralleling the eastern shoreline from Savannah, Georgia ... built as a levee on a rice plantation before the Civil War. I asked the elder Jenkins ...

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 ...