Tag: Georgia

  • Deconstructing a Manumission Document: Mary Stafford’s Free Paper The Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 89, Number 3 (Fall 2005) pages 285-317 Mary R. Bullard This article examines the manumission document of Mary Stafford. In early nineteenth-century Georgia, manumitting one’s slave property was a personal matter loosely regulated by the state. In exchange for a one dollar…

  • The Herndons: An Atlanta Family University of Georgia Press 2002-06-21 272 pages 8 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2309-1 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia A compelling portrait of one of Atlanta’s most prominent African American families Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was destined to drudgery in the red…

  • African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections 2004-03-17 Carole Merritt, Director The Herndon Home, Atlanta, Georgia The development of the African American community in Atlanta is a fruitful subject…

  • Statistics On Miscegenation Franklin Repository 1864-04-27 page 1, column 6 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Summary: The Repository details the disproportionate number of “mulattoes” in the South relative to the North. Full Text of Article: There were 411,613 mulatto slaves in the south in 1840, of whom…

  • Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…

  • More metro Atlantans say they’re multiracial: Fast-growing segment represents a cultural shift that’s nationwide Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2011-09-03 Bo Emerson When Evelyn Brown-Wilder was growing up in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the 1950s, life was a matter of warring opposites. Though some of her ancestors were white and her face was pale, the law said she was…

  • A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…

  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community

  • The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South