1540
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto surveys the area near present-day Augusta. His entourage includes enslaved Africans.
1732-1735
General James Edward Oglethorpe and other well-off Englishmen who made up the Georgia Trustees, establish . . . — — Map (db m271082) HM
1818
The Georgia Legislature adopts measures that restrict African American property ownership and that require free persons of color to
register annually and pay a tax when moving into the state. The registry includes many residents of . . . — — Map (db m271413) HM
"I take my pen in hand to give you a sketch of the proceedings of the 1st day of January (The Freedmen's 4th of July) in the City of Augusta, we met a Springfield Church, it being the largest colored church in the city." -Robert Kent, . . . — — Map (db m271414) HM
