Historical Timeline
| 1750 |
Georgia is the last of the British
North American colonies to legalize slavery. |
| 1750 |
White slave owners lived in cities like
Savannah; whereas the majority of the 40,000 slaves at this time
lived on plantations. |
| 1790 |
By this time, slavery is
entrenched in the original 6 slave states: Maryland, Delaware,
Virginia, North Carolina, Sough Carolina, and Georgia. |
| 1798 |
Georgia prohibits the
importation of slaves from outside the United States. |
| 1859 |
429 slaves belonging to Pierce Butler
are auctioned off in Savannah in the largest slave sale in U.S.
history. |
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Slave Populations:
 | 1830: 217,531 |
| 1860: 462,198 |
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