- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Land Grant to Austin Dabney
- Date of Original:
- 1821
- Subject:
- Land grants--Georgia
Slaves--Georgia
Slave soldiers--Georgia
African American men--Georgia
Free African Americans--Georgia
Dabney, Austin, ca. 1765-1830 - People:
- Dabney, Austin, ca. 1765-1830
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Washington County, 32.96954, -82.7959
- Medium:
- land grants
records (documents) - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Austin Dabney, an enslaved Georgian, earned freedom in exchange for his service in the patriot army. Dabney was banned from participating in the land lottery open to Revolutionary War veterans in 1819, but the legislature granted him acreage in Washington County in 1821.
Image of an 1821 land grant to Austin Dabney, a Georgia slave who earned freedom in exchange for his service in the patriot army. Dabney was banned from participating in the land lottery open to Revolutionary War veterans in 1819, but the legislature granted him acreage in Washington County, Georgia in 1821. He was the only African American to be granted land by the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery and service during the Revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military pension.
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Milledgeville, Ga.: Georgia General Assembly, 1821.
Kaplan, Sidney, and Emma Nogrady Kaplan. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-in-revolutionary-georgia/m-4125/
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- From The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, by S. Kaplan and E. N. Kaplan
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/austin-dabney-ca-1765-1830
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-revolutionary-georgia
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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