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Within the ebb-tide delta system, sediments are brought into the marshlands by flooding tides and then redeposited seaward of the inlet by ebbing tides. Shoals formed as a result of this tidal action eventually drift south with the currents and weld onto the northern portion of barrier islands. Courtesy of V. J. Henry 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.

Emancipation did not come suddenly or easily to Georgia. The liberation of the state’s more than 400,000 enslaved African Americans began during the chaos of the Civil War (1861-65) and continued well into 1865. Emancipation also demanded the reconfiguration of the full range of social and economic relations. What would replace slavery was unclear. Freedpeople, ex-slaveholders, and the Northerners responsible for enforcing freedom had their own ideas about what the future should bring.

A stereoscopic image of a flooded rice field in Savannah, circa 1880. Photograph from O. Pierre Havens, Wikimedia 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. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOm6ysoZ6awLR5xJymp6edrnyztcKeZqyslaeysL%2FCqKeim12bubC7w56bZqqZmLJussieo52XYGV%2BcA%3D%3D

Gene Patterson, an influential editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was known for his thundering daily columns in defense of civil rights and against the violence sweeping the South in the 1960s. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1967, and in 1985 he founded Georgia Trend, a monthly business magazine. Early Life and Career Eugene Corbett Patterson was born in Valdosta on October 15, 1923, to Annabel Corbett and William C.