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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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class whose ancestors were broughtfrom their African homes in Dutch, British and ISTew England ships andsold tO the white men who, by the aid of the stalwart muscle of the sonsof Africa, cleared the wilderness and prepared the way for thrivingfarms, great plantations and growing cities. Though the legislatures ofsome Southern colonies endeavored to prevent the importation of theseAfricans, the British government set their acts aside in the interest ofEnglish and New England traders. Even after the establishment ofAmerican independence the traders of IsTew England, who had beenamong the first to engage in the African slave tradei, continued it tothe year 1808, when the trafiic was abolished by Congressional enact-ment. These same New England traders, previous to that date, often vio-lated the laws of such Southern States as had prohibited the trafiic bysmuggling slaves into out-of-the-way places and selling them to thosewho were ready to purchase. Thus the South became so stocked with
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GEORGIA GONFKDKKATK MONUMKiNT AT GU lOK AM A UG A IAIiK. TO THE LASTING IV EMORY OF HER SONSWho fought on thiF field— Those who fought ar.d lived, and those who fought and died;Those who gave much and Ihosc who gave all— Gcoroia ERECTS THIS MONUMENT. GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 07 negroes that the Southern people considered emancipation under anycondition too dangerous an experiment to be even thought of. Yet, such were the kindly relations that for the most part existed be-tween masters and slaves, that even after the war had become on thepart of the i^orth a struggle for emancipation as well as for union, thenegroes remained in peace on the plantations, made the crops that sup-ported the armies in the field and their families at home, and with afidelity that amazed the enemies and slanderers of the South protectedthe wives and children of the men who, far from their defenseless lovedones, stood upon the firing-line striving with steadily diminishing num-bers to keep back

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