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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

Legal Financial Documents Featuring Free African Americans, 1811-1812

 File — Box 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

Dates: 1811-1812

Martin Legal papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-439
Content Description

A collection of legal and financial paperwork relating to the Martin family in Augusta, Georgia. Much of the collection comprises of deeds, indentures, estates, and wills.

Dates: 1874-1947; Other: Original date of transfer: 10/10/2025

Miscellaneous Legal papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-006
Scope and Contents

Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

Dates: Created: 1732-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1893; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1978

Patrick Timmons Augusta riots oral histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: IA-09-01-001
Abstract

This collection consists of oral histories on the 1970 Augusta riots collected by Patrick Timmons' Historical Research Methods Class.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Photograph depicting a baptism in the Savannah River

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00464
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph depicting an individual with a goat cart crossing a bridge

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00473
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph depicting pedestrians

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00471
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph depicting two women with a cart

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00474
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph of a group of people in front of the Ware High School marker

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00465
Dates: Digitized: 1999

Photograph of a man in front of Martin's Store

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00468
Dates: Digitized: 1900

Photograph of an African American Sunday school

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00469
Dates: Digitized: 1935

Photograph of laborers in a cotton mill

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00463
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph of laborers in a cotton warehouse

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00467
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph of laborers working on a railway

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00470
Dates: Digitized: undated

Photograph of the Lennox theatre

 Digital Record
Identifier: rl00462
Dates: Digitized: undated

Polylogue newspapers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-014
Scope and Contents

This collection includes two issues of Polylogue: Vol. 1 (7), 20 July 1970, and  Vol. 1(9), September, 1970.  These issues report on the Augusta Riot and the Charles Oatman murder.

Dates: Created: 1970/07-1970/09; Other: Date acquired: 06/03/1981

Portrait of young African American Man and an elderly African American woman (Series I, Item 27)

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS411_SeriesI_Item27
Dates: Digitized: undated

Reminiscences of the Old South

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-058
Abstract

Reminiscences of Old South, a typed speech by an unkown author. Some poems included.

Dates: Created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 12/1983

Richmond County receipt

 Item
Identifier: ARCHS -199
Scope and Contents

1852 Richmond County, Georgia receipt for sale of three male slaves

Dates: 1852-04-08

Richmond County slave records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-004
Abstract

Records of individuals owning enslaved persons.  Many records note the names of the enslaved persons.

Dates: Created: 1819-1847; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/1979