Resources on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in Tybee Island, Georgia
Documented Arrival Sites – Tybee Island, Georgia
Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to Tybee 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 Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
African Americans at Fort Pulaski National Historic Site Brief Historical Summary of the Tybee Lazaretto
Newspaper Articles and Colonial Documents
April 25, 1765 April 25, 1765 July 30, 1766 August 13, 1766 November 12, 1766 May 06, 1767 March 23, 1768 July 27, 1768 August 03, 1768 March 15, 1769 April 05, 1769 April 12, 1769 April 19, 1769 April 19, 1769 April 19, 1769 May 03, 1769 June 7, 1769 June 14, 1769 July 19, 1769 August 02, 1769 May 02, 1770 May 09, 1770 June 01, 1798 June 01, 1798 June 15, 1798 June 22, 1798 July 06, 1798 July 19, 1798 July 26, 1798 August 09, 1798 August 23, 1798 April 30, 1806 June 27, 1806
The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia: The Legislature, Vol. 1 Proceedings and Minutes of the Georgia Governor and Council from January 6, 1767, to December 5, 1769 Proceedings and Minutes of the Governor and Council from April 3, 1770, to July 13, 1771 Proceeding and Minutes of the Georgia Governor and Council, August 6, 1771, to February 13, 1782 Journal of the Commons House of Assembly January 17, 1763, to December 24, 1768, Inclusive Journal of the Commons House of Assembly October 30, 1769, to June 16, 1782, Inclusive Journal of the Upper House of Assembly January 17, 1763, to March 12, 1774, Inclusive .Statutes, Colonial and Revolutionary, 1768 to 1773 Original Papers, Correspondence, Trustees, General Oglethorpe and Others, 1745-1750
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