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During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery . The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so. However, it was legalized by royal decree in 1751, [1] in part due to George ...
Georgia - Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction: By the mid-19th century a vast majority of white Georgians, like most Southerners, had come to view slavery as economically indispensable to their society. Georgia, with the greatest number of large plantations of any state in the South, had in many respects come to epitomize plantation culture. When the American Civil War began in 1861, most white ...
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The proclamation also made it possible for nearly 200,000 African-Americans to join The United States Armed Forces during the war. For the 400,000 enslaved Georgians, the Emancipation Proclamation laid the foundation for a new social order when it was issued January 1, 1863, Today in Georgia History. Few presidential acts have had more impact ...
Dec 8, 2003 · Emancipation did not come suddenly or easily to Georgia. The liberation of the state’s more than 400,000 enslaved African Americans began during the chaos of the Civil War (1861-65) and continued well into 1865. Emancipation also demanded the reconfiguration of the full range of social and economic relations. What would replace slavery was unclear. Freedpeople, ex-slaveholders, […]
Dec 6, 2023 · Dec. 6, 1865. Engraving of the congressional resolution for the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, published in 1868. Credit: Smithsonian Institution. The state of Georgia provided the final vote needed for the 13th Amendment to become part of the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except ...
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Oct 21, 2005 · Originally published Oct 21, 2005 Last edited Sep 30, 2020. As a defeated Confederate state, Georgia underwent Reconstruction from 1865, when the Civil War (1861-65) ended, until 1871, when Republican government and military occupation in the state ended. Though relatively brief, Reconstruction transformed the state politically, socially, and ...
Jul 3, 2010 · The sectional crisis of the 1850s, in which Georgia played a pivotal role, led to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65). Southern politicians struggled during the crisis to prevent northern abolitionists from weakening constitutional protections for slavery. During this period, however, and for much of the antebellum era, Georgians maintained a relatively moderate political course, often […]
