Resources on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in Cockspur Island, Georgia   

Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to Cockspur Island | Open Tour

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The content of these documents provides details of the Middle Passage, specific vessels transporting captive Africans, the arrival of these people, and the ubiquity of slavery. The following resources include racist language as well as references to violence, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Africans. The language contained in the following documents may be upsetting to some readers.

Books and Literature

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1860
James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia
Africans in the Old South
The Fledgling Province: Social and Cultural Life in Colonial Georgia
What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast
Savannah’s Coastal Slave Trade
Slavery In Colonial Georgia, 1730–1775
Rice, Resistance, and Forced Transatlantic Communities

Newspaper Articles and Colonial Documents

August 03, 1768
August 02, 1769
April 26, 1796
May 10, 1796
May 24, 1796
May 27, 1796
June 24, 1796
June 28, 1796
July 05, 1796
July 29, 1796,
August 09, 1796
September 02, 1796
September 06, 1796
September 09, 1796
October 14, 1796
November 18, 1796
June 23, 1797
July 04, 1797
August 15, 1797
August 22, 1797
September 19, 1797
September 29, 1797
October 27, 1797
March 30, 1768
July 06, 1798

Further Reading

Georgia Plan: 1732-1752

Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah