A. R. Waud's sketch Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, Near Savannah, Georgia depicts enslaved African Americans working in the rice fields. From Harper's Weekly 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.

To save lodging costs, many Dixie Highway motorists spent the night sleeping on a cot in a waterproof canvas tent that attached to the side of their car. Courtesy of Edwin L. Jackson 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.

The U.S. Constitution grants to the U.S. Congress only a limited range of lawmaking authority. Perhaps the most significant source of congressional regulatory authority lies in its power to regulate interstate commerce—a power broadly defined in such important cases out of Georgia as United States v. Darby (1941) and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964). Another distinctively important grant of authority, however, permits federal legislators to enact “appropriate legislation” to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment’s prohibition on state action that denies persons “the equal protection of the laws” or deprives persons of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

One of the most valuable sources available for understanding the experiences of enslaved people in the American South is the testimony that they themselves produced in a variety of ways, both during and long after the existence of the “peculiar institution.” These testimonials, generally referred to as slave narratives, include memoirs and autobiographies written by fugitives from slavery who fled to the North and were assisted by abolitionists with the publication of their stories, as well as twentieth-century oral interviews with elderly freedpeople that recorded their memories of life during slavery and the circumstances of their emancipation either during or after the Civil War (1861-65).

Roy Richards Sr. founded a wire and cable manufacturing business known as Southwire in Carrollton in 1950, and since then this privately owned company has been a mainstay of the local economy. Photograph by Myron Wade House 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.