Resources on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in Savannah, Georgia
Documented Arrival Sites – Savannah, Georgia
Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to Savannah | 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
The Fledgling Province What Nature Suffers to Groe James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia Slavery In Colonial Georgia, 1730–1775 Slavery and Freedom in Savannah Africans in the Old South
Newspaper Articles and Colonial Records
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Further Reading
RICE, RESISTANCE, AND FORCED TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITIES: (RE)ENVISIONING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN LOW COUNTRY GEORGIA, 1750-1800
Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah Savannah’s Coastal Slave Trade: A Quantitative Analysis of Ship Manifests, 1840-1850 .
“New Negroes Are Always in Demand:'” The Slave Trade in Eighteenth-Century Georgia
Georgia Legislature. Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, Volume 10 (1767)
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah’s Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale – Southern Spaces
