Brief biography by this Mercer University faculty member of David Denton (1833–1925) who was born in Warren County, Georgia to Aaron Denton and Drucilla. He..... Read More about Concerning the Life and Services of David Denton
James A. Meriwether (1806–1852) was a jurist and legislator born near Washington, Georgia. He served during the Seminole Wars. Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the National..... Read More about Substance of the Remarks of Mr. Meriwether, of Georgia, on the Bill proposing a Repeal of the...
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“Reports and correspondence by officers and soldiers in the field, and testimony by citizens. An important source on the conflict along the Florida border.” —Jenkins..... Read More about Depredations by Indians and United States Troops in Georgia. [caption title
Surprisingly scarce study of Angelo Herndon (1913–1997), Black labor organizer and Communist Party activist. Herndon was convicted and imprisoned in Georgia in 1933 for attempting..... Read More about The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice
Unrecorded sheet music composed by Alfred Iversen, Esq., (1798–1873) attorney and Georgia politician, and later ardent secessionist; dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of Georgia..... Read More about When the Birds to the South, Written and Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of...
President Monroe transmits the reports of U.S. Attorney General William Wirt relating “...to any persons (citizens of the United States) who have been charged with..... Read More about Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting, In pursuance of a resolution of...
A Georgia native, Walker Smith Jr. (1921 –1989) a.k.a. Sugar Ray Robinson is regarded by some authorities as the greatest boxer of all time. Outside..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
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U.S. Post Office announcement by First Assistant Postmaster General Preston S. Sanford concerning the transmission of funds via postal money orders to American soldiers and..... Read More about 1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...
Rare fold-out pocket time table providing the schedule of trains, to and from Savannah, Gainesville, Chattahoochee and Albany; and also trains between Savannah and Jacksonville..... Read More about Official Pocket Time Table of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway. Showing Arrangement of...
An examination of the “foundation of slavery in Georgia, to trace the development and operation of the plantation régime to the outbreak of the Civil..... Read More about Plantation Slavery In Georgia
From the dust jacket: the author, “expertly blended the Springfield Church History with events which shaped Augusta’s history…” (Searles). “As a quiet trail blazer on..... Read More about Old Springfield. Race and Religion in Augusta, Georgia
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
Quite scarce. Compilation of addresses on contemporary economic, political, educational, and social issues affecting African Americans. These 17 talks were delivered at the second Southern..... Read More about The Human Way. Addresses on Race Problems at the Southern Sociological Congress Atlanta, 1913
Pierce Butler was a Georgia-born Philadelphian whose marriage to British actress Fanny Kemble was in discord as his ownership of enslaved African Americans clashed with..... Read More about Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
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Charming commencement issue from this African American college in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest private historically Black liberal arts college for women. Though not a yearbook..... Read More about Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades..... Read More about 1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for...
Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia..... Read More about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
Two letters from William Robertson (1749/50–1829) to Georgia Governor James Jackson requesting, in both instances, a leave of absence from his official duties. In full..... Read More about Two 1798 Autograph Letters Signed from William Robertson, Georgia Secretary to the Senate, to...
