Yes, the freedom to own slaves.
Actually about 7% of Georgia's free white population owned slaves. And when you consider that married women and children weren't going to own slaves on their own, the reality was that about 37% of Georgia's families were slave owners.
That's a little higher than the average of the eleven Confederate states, 5.7% and 31%.
When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the American South. The allure of profits from slavery, however, proved to be too powerful for...
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I’ve touched on this before in other posts. See here, here, here, and here. In an effort to minimize the importance of slavery, modern neoconfederates will focus on the percentage of slave ow…
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SOOOOOO, lemme get this straight. You are telling me that 95% of the English people who settled Georgia as indenture servants, all of a sudden owned SLAVES THEMSELVES at today's price of $20,000 PER? MY, MY, MY, how your Northern historians like to slant EVERYTHING to fit their narrative. For those who aren't aware, Indentured Servitude is WHITE SLAVERY! And I'm not the ONLY one who is still waiting for OUR reparations. SOUTHERN SOLDIERS, of which my relatives were part of. Fought for STATES RIGHTS, NOT SLAVERY. And we're STILL getting push around. NOBODY in MY family or any OTHER person I know of in SOWEGA, has ever owned slaves. And unlike the book of fiction, by Alex Haley. WE have records of our family lineage. Unlike Barack Hussein, who received SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS, for writing two books about a dude who left his high and dry in INFANCY.
In closing, do you suppose that there is any viable correlation between having people of color in charge of a city, and it becoming a cesspool? If it weren't for the MASTERS tourney, Augusta would be a COMPLETE TOILET. The highest crime rate in the STATE, just three blocks from the golf course. The Augusta Green Jackets moving it's operation to NORTH Augusta, S.C., when the BLACK Mayor and his henchmen, forced the city to build a new Bball court for the homies. Rather than building a state of the art facility next to the Savannah River, adjacent to downtown Broad Street. That would have revitalized the WHOLE CITY. He also nixed the development of the Augusta Canal, to copy the BILLION dollar tourist action in San Antonio. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. WE, the city council aint RACIST, just as long as you do as we say! And does anybody wonder why the Rams left LA? Or why the Patriots left Boston? Or why the Braves left ATLANTA for Marietta? ONE common denominator, THAT's why. And lest we NOT forget the cesspool perpetuated in San Fransicko, Chicago, DEEEtroit, and Cleveland, Portland, and Seattle.
And do you ever wonder why there seems to be a congregation of peoples of color in metro areas? It's because the feel SAFER among their own. I grew up during the beginning of integration in SOUTHWEST GEORGIA! And we saw the federal mandate of integration, that was to be implemented in 1971. And Moultrie, Ga., decided to be proactive. And integrate the public high school my senior year, 1966. And say WHAAAAT! NOBODY was taking us up on our hospitality. I guess the Northern rabble rousers like Big Al Sharpie, had told them to beWARE of the WHITE MENACE. TRUTH be told, I was kinda looking forward to rejoining some of my playmates from when I lived with my grandparents in my early years in rural South Colquitt County. I'd never SEEN a WHITE kid, until I got to school. One of my black buds ask me one day, if I was RACIST? I told him that I didn't THINK I was, but I MIGHT be. ***ROTFLMAO*** We used to hunt with our BB Guns, fish, and get into mischief, just like everybody ELSE! And we had a BLAST!
Fast forward to 1966. And the invitation was sent out to William Bryant High School in Moultrie, Ga. to come join us, IF you'd like. And with 200 seniors in the school. NOBODY took us up on the invitation. The administration at Moultrie High School met with their counterparts at William Bryant. And a solution was agreed upon. TWENTY-ONE black kids decided to make the transfer. And two of the females would be in my Algebra II class. One day I asked one of those classmates as to why she decided to transfer. She said simple really. I needed the money, and they said that they'd give us SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS. NOW that may not seem like a substantial sum. But in 1966, farm kids were working before and after school, tending to a calf that they would prepare during the year, for auction. And for their toils, they would get MAYBE $600.00, GROSS. While the Black kids received $600 for showing up to class. THAT, and all of a sudden, we saw a bus showing up with the Black kids on it. And NOBODY in the city of 15,000 had EVER gotten a ride before. (can you say BRIBERY?) I lived three miles away from school, and had to either ride with dear ole MOM an hour early, or WALK to school, to sit on an open air catwalk, in brisk temps! Plus a discounted or free lunch program was implemented. NEVER before, was this the case. And slowly, the schools began to assimilate, as time went on. But years later, at the ten year reunion, NO black faces showed up.
Fast forward to present day. And turns OUT, BLACK kids don't want ANY PART of INTEGRATION. As evidence to the more than FIFTY all Black high schools in the state of Georgia, by CHOICE! Westlake and Langston Hughes in South Fulton County, are two cases in point. The average home in those areas is a biscuit under $500,000. And kids come from all over Middle and North Central Georgia, to play for all Black Cedar Grove. And there are several all Black private schools in Savannah, as well.
Sorry if I got on my soap box. But some people's children who believe everything they read. I have a book in my possession that was written by soldiers of this conflict. And it wasn't taken out of context. It was relayed by former LIVING soldiers from both NORTH and SOUTH, Circa 1909, while attending one of the periodic reunions, which were frequently held until the aforementioned were unable to attend. Some VERY interesting takes on the conflict, to be certain.
Have you ever heard the ole adage, that history is written by the VICTORS?
