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Georgia was the last colony – then it became one of the South’s bloodiest battlegrounds

The video traces Georgia from its earliest Indigenous cultures through Spanish contact, British colonization, slavery, Native removal, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, industrialization, and ...
Yahoo

A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

What Georgia Made and Traded in Colonial Times

Explore Colonial Georgia’s early economy and the crops that helped shape the colony. Learn how settlers experimented with silk, indigo, and rice, traded goods with England, and built the foundations ...
insider.si.edu

Forty years of diversity : essays on colonial Georgia / edited by Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding

Proceedings of a symposium held in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 8-10, 1983. NMAI copy 39088017702960 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Prologue: The founding of Georgia / Kenneth Coleman -- [1.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Founders envisioned Georgia as a ‘charity colony’: Untrue for millions today

Peach State ranks high in business, but when it comes to health and quality of life, it’s near the bottom. Let’s transform a bleak outlooks for millions. A statue of Georgia's founder, Gen. James ...