Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke (sometimes spelled “Clark”) was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763. As an impoverished, illiterate frontiersman, he appeared in the ceded lands, on what was then the northwestern frontier of Georgia, in 1773. Clarke’s name appears on a petition in support of the king’s government in 1774.

The daughter of an African American woman and her white enslaver, Ellen looked white and was able to escape slavery by disguising herself as a southern slaveholder. From The Underground Rail Road, by W. Still The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century South who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes. Eschewing a domestic life for a career in journalism and adult education, Woodward appeared personally and in print across the United States and abroad. Hers was a public life devoted to social and political advocacy. Emily Barnelia Woodward was born on May 2, 1885, in the south-central Georgia town of Vienna, where she lived her entire life.

An illustration depicts enslaved laborers working in a southern cotton field. After the Civil War the most important issue to white landowners was that many of their best cotton fields lay in disrepair and their cotton field labor had been emancipated. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOm6ysoZ6awLR5xJymp6edrnyku9OtpqdnnWKAdICWaA%3D%3D

As was true in all southern states, enslaved women played an integral part in Georgia’s colonial and antebellum history. Scholars are beginning to pay more attention to issues of gender in their study of slavery in the Old South and are finding that enslaved women faced additional burdens and even more challenges than did many enslaved men. Eighteenth Century It is not known just when the first enslaved women came to Georgia.