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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...
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Was Georgia’s white founder an ally to enslaved people? A new book dissects his history

Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward ...
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Athens native Michael Thurmond writes book on Georgia's founder and his opposition to slavery

The written word can have a lasting impact. That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday celebration of ...
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Forty years of diversity : essays on colonial Georgia / edited by Harvey H. Jackson and Phinizy Spalding

Proceedings of a symposium held in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 8-10, 1983. NMAI copy 39088017702960 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Prologue: The founding of Georgia / Kenneth Coleman -- [1.
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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

In new book, Michael Thurmond makes a case that Georgia’s colonial founder “helped breathe life” into the abolitionist movement, notion that is highly skeptical skeptical among some historians ...
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A Black author takes a new look at Georgia’s white founder and his failed attempt to ban slavery

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...