Subject: Slaves--Georgia / Topics: Peoples & Cultures - Digital Library of Georgia Search Results

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Description:: Materials digitized includes a set of letters dating from 1941-1948 to and from Rev. John Dawson Gordon, whose parents were enslaved by and, later, servants of the Gordon family from 1854 until they moved to California in the 1890s.
Date of Original:: 1941/1948
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Collection of documents pertaining to the estate of Theodore G. Sledge, who died leaving behind six enslaved men and women, Maria, Lucinda, Spencer, Hester, Minerva, and Francey, and fifteen hundred and thirty-six dollars of Confederate currency. Several family members sought legal action, but the case was dismissed in November 1864.
Date of Original:: 1864-10
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Nineteenth-century ledger and scrapbook dating from 1860 to 1864 (for the ledger) and 1870 to 1899 (for the scrapbook) documenting work conducted at the Carpentry Shop, within the Savannah Shops complex of the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia.
Date of Original:: 1860/1864
Holding Institution:: Coastal Heritage Society (Ga.)

Description:: Plantation account books and writings of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, born near Crawfordville, Georgia in 1812 to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens; he was vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, a United States congressman, and died in office as Georgia governor in 1883.
Date of Original:: 1851/1944
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Bill of sale dated December 11, 1850, for an enslaved girl named Catherine, exchanged from J. S. and J. D. Glass of Bethel, North Carolina to Ross Crane of Athens, Georgia. The girl is described as being a light-complexioned ten-year-old girl.
Date of Original:: 1850-12-11
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Papers of the Malcolm Johnston family dating from the nineteenth century that include documents concerning enslaved people owned by the Johnston family: bill of sales for a slave received by Richard Johnston; wills of Malcolm Johnston and E. L. Johnston; “List of property belonging to M. Johnston,” listing 800 acres of land, and the name, sex, age, and monetary value of enslaved people.
Date of Original:: 1850/1862
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Two slave bills of sale to John C. Greer dated January 4, 1848, for enslaved man, Pompey, and February 5, 1850, for enslaved woman, Milly.
Date of Original:: 1848-01-04/1850-02-05
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: A bill of exceptions in the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Savannah, January Term, 1848, for the recovery of three African American enslaved people "named Judy, Bella, and John her son...that were the property of Ann Cunningham," in the case Ann Grigg vs. Charles Spalding.
Date of Original:: 1848
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Ledgers kept by Henry Hicks, a physician in Wrightsville, Georgia, that include names of people who were enslaved, loose papers that include a freedmen list, lectures from the Medical College of Georgia, and lists of household goods and livestock.
Date of Original:: 1843/1873
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

Description:: Papers dating from 1842-1900 belonging to Henry Newton, a Presbyterian preacher raised in Athens, Georgia, who served numerous churches throughout northeast Georgia.
Date of Original:: 1842/1900
Holding Institution:: Columbia Theological Seminary

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