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Inside the Struggle to Preserve Georgia's Butler Island, Home to a Notorious Plantation
The route that runs straight through Darien, Georgia ... Plantation, a major cotton-producing farm. The auction of enslaved people, held at Ten Broeck Race Course in Savannah, was among the ...
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Pebble Hill Plantation offering free grounds and outbuildings admission for “Super Museum Sunday”
THOMASVILLE- Pebble Hill Plantation recently announced that it will participate in the Georgia History Festival’s Super ...
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The Weeping Time
In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the ... The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his ...
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"What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation"
Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...