United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Hardwick, Grace2007-08-05Encyclopedia article about Jefferson Franklin Long. Georgia's first African American congressman and the first African American to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jefferson Franklin Long was born into slavery on March 3, 1836, in Alabama to a slave mother and a white father. By the 1840 U.S. census he was listed as a slave in the household of James C. Loyd, a tailor with modest land holdings in Knoxville, in Crawford County, Georgia. During the 1850s the Loyd family moved from Knoxville to Macon, taking Long with them. Not long after their arrival they sold Long to Edwin Saulsbury, a prominent businessman.GSE identifier: SS8H6text/htmlNew Georgia EncyclopediaForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Legislators--United StatesAfrican American legislators--Georgia--History--19th centuryFreedmen--United StatesJefferson Franklin Long (1836-1901)Text