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  1. African American Religious Communities
    date 1875map LIBERTY, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Race-Relations

    Old Midway Church in Liberty County, Georgia served as a place where both whites and blacks came together to worship in antebellum society. A Congregational polity, its members opposed secession, but the rising tensions brought on by the Civil War resulted in the termination of communication between the Church and its fellow congregations in the North. During Reconstruction, a white Congregational...

  2. Managing Black Labor on a Southern Plantation
    date March, 1871map GLYNN, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Race-Relations

    Francis Butler Leigh ran her plantation on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia on her own. However, she was scheduled to leave for Europe to meet with her husband, and the plantation would have to continue its day-to-day activities without her supervision. Leigh wrote in her diary that she worried about leaving the place entirely in charge of the negro captains, even though her slaves were...

  3. White Response to African American Mob
    date May 9, 1867map RICHMOND, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    An escalating series of events led to armed soldiers charging at an African American mob of one thousand. Although the evening had started with a small group of African Americans watching a trial of engines between the Richmond and the visiting Wilmington, Delaware Fire Companies, police soon arrested an African American man who allegedly attacked the firemen. A riot followed, with the mob hurling...

  4. Victorious Democratic Letter to Blacks in Newspaper
    date November 12, 1884map WILKINSON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    On November 4, 1884 Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States, and the beginning of the end of Reconstruction throughout the South commenced. While the Democrats had already taken over the Georgia state legislature as early as 1870, the party wished to appease any fears that black citizens may have about the end of Republican rule. On November 12, 1884, the Savannah News...